In his new role as Chairman and Chairman of the Korea Racing Authority Mr Kim Nag Soon announced the forthcoming 37th Asian Racing Conference will offer all participant the platform to pursue open and interesting dialogue on the issues and challenges we face today.
The Conference’s Business and Specialist Sessions, Exhibition and Networking programs will provide the experience and expertise that will act as a fertile source to advance the racing industry beyond borders.
The 37th Asian Racing Conference will be held in Seoul, Korea from May 13 to 18, 2018, under the banner of the Asian Racing Federation.
In Mr Kim’s expression of proactive participation and keen support will be crucial to the success of the Conference as the ARF have dedicated a full session to Associate Professor Stacey Steele on her ‘Anti-Illegal Betting & Money Laundering’ address.
Professor Steele will draw on her strong Asian legal, financial and regulatory background in considering the major developments in the regulation of money laundering and beyond. She will be considering important issues which are faced by racing regulators, wagering organisations and major financial institutions.
Now an Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre of Melbourne School of Law, Professor Steele teaches banking and finance law, insolvency law at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She continues to work across the Asia-Pacific specialising in financial services and transactional law.
With more than 15 years’ experience as an Australian lawyer, Professor Steele spent over seven years as a Senior Associate with a leading Sydney law firm practicing corporate and project financial law. In 2007 she went in-house as an Associate General Counsel.
With the focus moving onto the athlete in the saddle it is Professor Yung Shu-Hang Patrick who explores the demands on professional jockeys in his address ‘The Modern Jockey: A Sports Medicine Perspective.’
Professor Yung will expand on how sports medicine and sports science is changing training, injury prevention and injury treatment of jockeys. In Hong Kong in 2005 he conducted the first Master Course in Sport Medicine and Health Science.
A renowned world specialist in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Professor Yung is Chair or Board Member of several influential local and international bodies on Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy surgery.
Leading veterinary professors Tim Parkin and Chris Whitton turn the spotlight back onto the horse with their equine research based on the minimising of injury risk to the horse.
Dr Brian Stewart, the Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Head of Veterinary Regulation and Biosecurity, will lead the session which will explore cutting edge developments in global equine veterinary and biomedical research.
Professor Tim Parkin is the Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology of Equine Clinical Services at the University of Glasgow and is a Member of the Equine Injury Database Advisory Committee in the USA.
As Head of the Equine Centre at the University of Melbourne, Professor Chris Whitton leads the Equine Limb Injury Prevention Programme, a multidisciplinary research program dedicated to training and management protocols for racehorses.
By Bernard Kenny