Sunday, September 15, 2013

Noble House (Mini series) - Pierce Brosnan (1988) - Happy Valley Racecourse, Happy Valley

There is some nice footage of the race course at Happy Valley in Noble House as Dunross (Brosnan) checks out the form of his race horse. I tend to steer clear of these places (in a past life I worked in the IT dept for well known UK betting company and it was enough to put me off gambling for life) but did make a trip out to Shatin once and had no clue what I was doing.


For those who don't know the Chinese name for this place (and surrounding area) is actually just 'racecourse' (Pau Ma Dei 跑馬地 lit: run horse ground) the English name seemingly more poetic but actually a product of some ironic humour courtesy of the first British settlers due to the high number of malaria related deaths from living in the - originally marshy - vicinity.

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