The licensing committee meeting at the end of next week looks a key assembly in a couple of important areas for the Hong Kong racing scene over several seasons to come.

There is strong expectation a new local trainer will be named - perhaps the favourite there is Frankie Lor Fu-chuen to shade Jimmy Ting Koon-ho - along with a new expatriate trainer.

With all due respect to Lor and Ting, the biggest interest is in who the Jockey Club anoints to fill one of the gaps left by the departure of Sean Woods and Andreas Schutz at the end of last season.

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