Happy Lucky Dragon Win | Racing's Beyonce and Jay-Z call it quits
The first thing out of anybody’s mouth when like-minded folk gather to talk Hong Kong racing is: “What’s going on with John Size and Douglas Whyte?” Feel better now that we have got it out in the open? The first step in solving any problem is to talk about it.
In a few weeks we’ll run through the big questions for 2014 at Happy Lucky Dragon Win, because we don’t avoid the big topics: can Dennis Yip Chor-hong repeat as champion trainer, and if he does, will he create another limited edition line of jeans to celebrate the unlikely accomplishment? Does former trainer Andy Leung Ting-wah actually live under the grandstand at Sha Tin racecourse, making him impossible to get rid of? Can Joao Moreira win the jockeys’ championship while spending more racedays suspended than actually riding?
Even though pondering these questions keeps us awake at night, it’s not the first question anyone with the remotest interest in Hong Kong racing actually asks us.
There’s that elephant in the room, that became a woolly mammoth, which has transformed into a pack of stampeding pachyderms.
The first thing out of anybody’s mouth when like-minded folk gather to talk Hong Kong racing is: “What’s going on with John Size and Douglas Whyte?” Feel better now that we have got it out in the open? The first step in solving any problem is to talk about it.
This is the Hong Kong racing equivalent of Beyonce and Jay-Z calling it quits. Hong Kong’s heart is broken, we thought they were forever. All we need now are some paparazzi-style magazine shots of Douglas sneaking out to get Starbucks, hat pulled low over his eyes, with his new squeeze Danny Shum Chap-shing to make it official.
So, “what is the go with Dougie and John?” as so many readers are demanding. Well, first of all, don’t ask Dougie or John. Well, you can, but they won’t say anything.
