Wednesday at the Races During the cooler months in Hong Kong, the ones that dip below thirty degrees Celsius, horse racing is held. Because much of the local population are most certainly not wager-averse, as soon as the mercury drops below a level where horses are able to run, every Wednesday evening sees Happy Valley race course packed. For shear architectural volume, Happy Valley puts any racecourse I’ve been to before to absolute shame. I don’t claim to be a race-goer, but Happy Valley’s terraced stands, the kind I’ve seen only along the finishing straights of the pony pitting I’ve attended previously, wrap around half the course! The published capacity is thirty five thousand. If you can imagine Ellis Park, the venue where South Africa won the World Cup for the first time - cut it
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