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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