After the track, Hong Kong's champion horses retire in luxury around the world

While champion horse Viva Pataca is spending his retirement in Macau, for other Hong Kong's champion racehorses retirement comes at an affordable price and is available at greener pastures at equine farms around the world.

Archie da Silva, owner of champion Silent Witness - one of the city's most esteemed horses, a winner of his first 17 starts, a two-time Horse of the Year and the best sprinter in the world at the peak of his career - sent his horse to Living Legends in Australia in 2007, becoming one of the first horses retired to the farm.

"The process to get a horse to one of these farms takes some time but it must be done. Living Legends is for champions and I'm very happy that Silent Witness went there and I'm very pleased with the conditions my horse now lives in. He deserves only the best," da Silva said.

And he's not the only one. Triple Hong Kong Mile winner Good Ba Ba has retired to Living Legends in Melbourne, while two-time Champions Mile winner Xtension was retired last year to Rathbarry Stud in County Cork, Ireland.

Akeed Mofeed, the 2013 Hong Kong Cup and Hong Kong Derby winner, now stands at owner Pan Sutong's Goldin Farms stud farm in South Australia.

Fairy King Prawn, two-time Horse of the Year and one of Hong Kong's most popular horses, now resides at Ascot Farm in New Zealand.