Horseracing is one of those few sports where gambling is legal and Hong Kong is the largest market or the illicit trade - with the crazy-gambling community shedding over £5.4 billion a year on racing.
Hong Kong’s Happy Valley and Sha Tin are two of the world’s most famous racetracks, the single day turnover here is enough to surpass the whole year’s income of the European and American courses - but do swindlers and sleaze drive the sport.
At the Happy Valley racetrack a device with 12 barrels loaded with poisonous darts is found implanted in the turf track believed to be a tranquilizing gun, the device is remote operated and the barrels pointed towards the starting gates, initiating the mind to ponder is this part of a race fixing plot, perhaps?
The device was found under the grass spot where the starting stalls would be placed for the three races over 1,200 meters (six furlongs) - where does this head, how self-centered can individuals be, money driving the humanity into poising animals, shameless!
Who is responsible - the jockeys are caught unaware, then is the organization responsible or is it the organized-crime gangs. By n large the organization stands jinxed if not directly then indirectly - its under their nose that this is happened, somewhere down the line they are responsible, though charging someone at the point is mere premature evaluation.
The police and investigating authorities are looking up into the matter - a swift inquire is required if the speechless beasts are to be put away from this slow implicated death, maintaining the spirit of the game redirecting it into the right direction.
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