{"id":777012819,"date":"2024-02-01T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012819"},"modified":"2026-04-22T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:27:48","slug":"horse-owners-unhappy-over-mjc-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/horse-owners-unhappy-over-mjc-ultimatum","title":{"rendered":"Horse owners unhappy over MJC ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The MJC is required to remove all horses from its premises by April 1, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>The Macau Jockey Club (MJC)\u00a0<\/strong>has generated controversy by presenting horse owners with a choice of either giving up their horses without compensation or paying monthly fees to keep their horses at the venue until they can find transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to TDM Canal Macau and Asia Gaming Brief, the move has generated anger from owners, trainers and riders. The MJC is required to remove all horses from its premises by April 1, 2025. The government has stated that the horses will be sent to mainland China. However, owners and trainers say they would prefer to send their horses to countries such as Australia and New Zealand.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are asking for compensation from MJC to help with transport and logistics. Instead, the MJC has offered to take the horses for free or charge a monthly rent of MOP8,000 (US$990) to keep them in the MJC&#8217;s stables until the operator leaves the premises.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to TDM Canal Macau,\u00a0owners have given the MJC until tomorrow (February 2) to make a better offer or they will consider going to the press, although since the matter is already in the press it&#8217;s unclear what that would involve. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-jockey-club-concession-to-end-on-april-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau will rescind the horse racing concession contract<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Macau Horse Race<\/strong>, the company which operates the MJC, on April 1.\u00a0Upon contract termination, the land and associated facilities will revert to the government at no cost and will be designated to the government\u2019s land reserve. A study will determine its usage, but casino gaming has been ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The secretary for Administration and Justice,\u00a0<strong>Andr\u00e9 Cheong Weng Chon<\/strong>, said no new public tender will be issued for horse racing concessions in Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MJC is required to remove all horses from its premises by April 1, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau Jockey Club (MJC) faces controversy over its handling of horse removal ahead of its concession termination on April 1, 2025, offering owners no compensation or charging monthly fees. This dispute arises as the Macau government rescinds the horse racing contract, with the land reverting to the state for future designation, explicitly ruling out casino gaming.","focusai_entities":"Macau Jockey Club (MJC), Macau Horse Race, TDM Canal Macau, Asia Gaming Brief, Andr\u00e9 Cheong Weng Chon","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Australia, New Zealand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Concession Reversion Terms","query":"What are the specific legal and financial terms governing the reversion of assets and land to the Macau government upon the termination of the Macau Horse Race concession, particularly concerning uncompensated asset transfers?"},{"label":"Land Use Strategy","query":"Given the explicit exclusion of casino gaming, what specific non-gaming development verticals is the Macau government considering for the reclaimed MJC land parcel to align with its economic diversification objectives?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[24374],"class_list":["post-777012819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-the-macau-jockey-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777012819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012830,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012819\/revisions\/777012830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777012819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}