Experiences of the demise of the horse racing business are totally untimely if latest occasions on the Hong Kong Jockey Membership are any indication. Gamers pushed the turnover on the latest G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee S (Royal Ascot) to $66.2 million HK ($8.46 million USD), a brand new document for the World Pool.

Saturday’s large money haul broke the earlier document of $66.1 million HK ($8.44 million USD) which was set on the 2022 G1 Betfred Derby.

Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, CEO of the HKJC commented on the massive day in feedback reported on by Thoroughbred Racing Day by day saying, “Royal Ascot as soon as once more produced distinctive racing and it’s clear that worldwide racing followers have embraced the standard and depth of fields throughout the 5 days. World Pool presents the perfect worldwide racing for patrons throughout the globe. Within the 4 years since we launched World Pool at Royal Ascot, the Hong Kong Jockey Membership has cast – and enhanced – a bunch of World Pool partnerships around the globe and we’re delighted on the important progress achieved to date.”

“It has been one other vastly profitable week for World Pool at Royal Ascot and we’re thrilled with the extent of turnover each on target as we welcomed again a full scale crowd and remotely. In my time at Ascot, the World Pool has been probably the most modern initiatives we’ve got been concerned in and these new partnerships have proved vastly useful to racing at Ascot and the broader business,” Man Henderson, Chief Government at Ascot Racecourse added.

The document turnover day on the Royal Ascot was coincidentally the identical day that the observe signed a five-year extension of its relationship with the race.