Asians love their Horse Races!!!

On Sunday, early afternoon, while a group of MS students went to the beach, about 10 of us decided to instead go see Horse Races. The Horse Races in Happy Valley were highly recommended by many and occur twice a week on Sundays and Wednesdays. Since we knew we would not have time this wednesday, it is actually the last day of our trip and the day we present our projects to the executives of Procter and Gamble in Asia, we all went to Happy Valley to watch the Horse races.

I was extremely excited about going to Happy Valley. It would be my second time close to horses or at a horse race. The first time was at Foxfield, during which I actually got laughed at for taking pictures with a horse. The fun was apparently in drinking.

Anyways, the Horse Race costs about 10 HK dollars, meaning about 1.50 US. pretty cheap.

For 1.50US, I enjoyed about 3 hours of horse races. I never realized how extremely expenseive Foxfield is until Sunday.

Happy Valley looks incredible, with several restaurants on the higher levels, benches on the bottom, and rooms and counters to place bets everywhere. Surrounding the fields are, of course, skycrapers, offices and aparments, which adds to the beauty of the place I think.

Since I do not bet as a rule, once I was in Happy Valley, I went straight to where the jockeys were warming up or cooling down their horses. I snapped several pictures, trying to get the best looking horses or designs on their butts as you can see on the picture. Then, I watched about 4 races and learned a lot about odds on both horses and jockeys during races, what probabilty numbers mean etc...

I also enjoyed hearing screams and cheers towards the end of each race, seeing sad and frustrated faces of people who lost money, and the happy faces of the ones who win. Another amazing thing is Happy Valley gave to charity a good chunk of the money they make during the races.

After the 7th game, I left Happy Valley so that I could make it on time to meet the group going to The Peak. While in the taxi, I thought to myself that Happy Valley must be making tons of money for it to have races twice a week as well as give money to charity. Maybe I should invest in horse

races!!!!

Overall, I had a pretty exciting time at Happy

Valley. I highly recommend it to anyone coming to Hong Kong.

These are memories that I will cherish all my life.