{"id":2262493,"date":"2026-02-02T07:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2262493"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T07:35:47","slug":"from-racing-to-moving-to-music-jockey-club-gives-retired-racehorses-new-lease-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/from-racing-to-moving-to-music-jockey-club-gives-retired-racehorses-new-lease-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"From racing to moving to music, Jockey Club gives retired racehorses new lease of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Among the performers during the three-day Longines Hong Kong International Horse Show were eight retired equines who now move to music rather than racing around a track.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Graduates of a Hong Kong Jockey Club programme designed to give these elite animals a new lease of life, the group included multiple race winners such as Prawn BaBa and Bo Duke.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Aimed at retraining them after their racing days are over, Natasha Rose, the club\u2019s executive manager of equestrian affairs projects, said the intelligence and athleticism of the thoroughbreds made them ideal candidates for equestrian disciplines, like dressage.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIt\u2019s actually very good for them to keep learning new things because they can give so much back into their second career to keep active, to keep fit and to keep healthy,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn equestrian, we actually start training horses a little bit later than in racing. So when they\u2019ve retired from racing, they are the perfect age to go into equestrian,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-0 e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1ixmelf e1gf69pb1\">Natasha Rose is the Hong Kong Jockey Club\u2019s executive manager of equestrian affairs projects. Photo: Eugene Lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For New Elegance, who is known as \u201cTom\u201d in the stables, the club\u2019s Restart programme turned a former racer into an experienced exhibition horse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the performers during the three-day Longines Hong Kong International Horse Show were eight retired equines who now move to music rather than racing around a track. Graduates of a Hong Kong Jockey Club programme designed to give these elite animals a new lease of life, the group included multiple race winners such as Prawn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2262494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[438255,22481,438262,438258,310801,438256,438260,438251,438261,438253,438250,438254,438259,438252,438257],"class_list":["post-2262493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-bo-duke","tag-china","tag-conghua","tag-dressage","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-jockey-club","tag-longines-hong-kong-international-horse-show","tag-musical-ride","tag-natasha-rose","tag-new-elegance","tag-prawn-baba","tag-racing-talent-training-centre","tag-restart-programme","tag-solar-billion","tag-tracy-lung"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/From-racing-to-moving-to-music-Jockey-Club-gives-retired.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262495,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262493\/revisions\/2262495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}