A day at the races...

Went with the SMU exchange students to the horse races today for an eye-opener. Must say that it was quite an experience...
The Race Course in HK is located in Shatin (沙田) area...quite accessible via the KCR (Kowloon China Railway - I think that's what it stands for).

The horses just rush past....really fast. In fact they go so fast that the safety vehicles and media vans which follow in an inner track are made to seem slow in comparison!

Left: What I call the "Horse Racing Lecture". Here, you can see hundreds of betters and punters sitting on seats like those in the picture, staring intently at their newspapers and score-record cards, trying to analyse a possible windfall - whilst at the same time, half-listening to the two commentators (who in my opinion, sounded like two old-men discussing about the prices of meat and veg at the pasar)...in short = VERY BORING!