{"id":777029208,"date":"2025-07-18T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777029208"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T23:53:08","slug":"hong-kong-2024-25-racing-turnover-up-3-per-cent-year-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/hong-kong-2024-25-racing-turnover-up-3-per-cent-year-on-year","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong racing turnover up 3% year-on-year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Season turnover reached HK$138.85bn (US$17.70bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong.- The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC)<\/strong> has reported that\u00a0racing wagering turnover for the 2024\/25 Hong Kong season was HK$138.85bn (US$17.70bn)<\/strong>. That’s a 3 per cent increase on 2023\/24 and a return to growth after a 4.5 per cent decline last season<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HKJC reported that the growth in racing turnover was driven primarily by optimised jackpot offerings, improved field sizes, increased mainland and international sports tourism and globalising Hong Kong Racing via commingling, combined with the club’s international simulcast under World Pool Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 88 race meetings<\/strong> over the course of the 2024\/25 Hong Kong racing season, including seven summer series fixtures, comprising 847 Hong Kong races and 393 overseas simulcast races. Season racecourse attendance was over 1.7 million, including a record 195,786 mainland tourists, a 110 per cent increase from 93,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe individual and collective feats of Hong Kong’s equine titans – Ka Ying Rising, Romantic Warrior and Voyage Bubble – elevated Hong Kong’s world-class racing onto an even higher plane during a record-breaking and historic season,\u201d reported the HKJC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief executive officer Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges at the Happy Valley Season Finale. Credit: HKJC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnce again, Conghua Racecourse, with its state-of-the-art training and rehabilitation facilities, has been vital to the success of the season. The Club is well-advanced in its preparations for the start of regular racing at Conghua in October 2026,\u201d it concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> HKJC opens applications for racing trainees<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Season turnover reached HK$138.85bn (US$17.70bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":777029211,"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 Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) reported a 3% increase in racing wagering turnover for the 2024\/25 season, reaching HK$138.85bn (US$17.70bn), marking a return to growth. This performance was driven by optimised jackpot offerings, improved field sizes, increased sports tourism, and globalising Hong Kong Racing through commingling and the World Pool Strategy. The club also highlighted the vital role of Conghua Racecourse, with regular racing slated to commence there in October 2026.","focusai_entities":"Hong Kong Jockey Club, HKJC, Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, Ka Ying Rising, Romantic Warrior, Voyage Bubble","focusai_location":"Hong Kong, Conghua","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Commingling Impact","query":"What specific data points or metrics demonstrate the incremental revenue contribution from the World Pool Strategy and commingling initiatives, beyond general turnover growth?"},{"label":"Conghua ROI","query":"What is the projected return on investment and operational efficiency gain anticipated from the full activation of regular racing at Conghua Racecourse by October 2026?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,155],"tags":[22317],"class_list":["post-777029208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-hong-kong-jockey-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029208","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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777029208"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777029248,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777029208\/revisions\/777029248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777029211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777029208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777029208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777029208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}