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13-02-2003, 21:03
Top Hong Kong Job For Australian Journalist
Story By Chris Scholtz
Thursday, 13 February 2003: Australian journalist Murray Bell has been appointed racing editor of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong.
“I regard this as the number one position in the world for a racing journalist and I’m honoured to have been selected from applicants around the world,” Bell told Racing and Sports.
Like most things in Hong Kong racing the South China Morning Post will boast a strong Australian influence as Bell will be joining former Sydney journalist Alan Aitken on the paper’s racing staff.
Aitken has been employed by the SCMP for the last two years as a senior racing writer.
Bell,48, worked on the racing staff of metropolitan papers in Melbourne and Sydney at various times from 1973 until 1999 when he left the Sydney Daily Telegraph to pursue racing interests in Singapore.
He has also been a successful bloodstock consultant and a major contributor to leading international racing publications for more than 25 years. Other roles have included executive positions with the NSW Racehorse Owners Association and NSW Racing Media Association.
Since his move to Singapore Bell has mixed media work with his bloodstock consultancy business, including the contribution to Racing and Sports of an informative weekly report on racing in Asia.
Bell, well regarded for his knowledge and views on the breeding industry, has raced or syndicated a number of successful horses in Australia and Singapore.
His first horse Seiger was a Group 3 winner of 10 races and over $220,000. He has subsequently been responsible for purchasing or selecting over 100 individual winners of more than 400 races, including current Group One stars Lord Essex and Fields of Omagh and past Group winners Gamine, Taj Quillo, Ark Regal, Mountain Rule, Pray for Colleen and Speeding Fine.
He has raced several winners in Singapore over the last two years including the Group winner St Kentigern.
Bell will move to Hong Kong next week in preparation for the Hong Kong Gold Cup meeting on February 23.
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Story By Chris Scholtz
Thursday, 13 February 2003: Australian journalist Murray Bell has been appointed racing editor of the South China Morning Post newspaper in Hong Kong.
“I regard this as the number one position in the world for a racing journalist and I’m honoured to have been selected from applicants around the world,” Bell told Racing and Sports.
Like most things in Hong Kong racing the South China Morning Post will boast a strong Australian influence as Bell will be joining former Sydney journalist Alan Aitken on the paper’s racing staff.
Aitken has been employed by the SCMP for the last two years as a senior racing writer.
Bell,48, worked on the racing staff of metropolitan papers in Melbourne and Sydney at various times from 1973 until 1999 when he left the Sydney Daily Telegraph to pursue racing interests in Singapore.
He has also been a successful bloodstock consultant and a major contributor to leading international racing publications for more than 25 years. Other roles have included executive positions with the NSW Racehorse Owners Association and NSW Racing Media Association.
Since his move to Singapore Bell has mixed media work with his bloodstock consultancy business, including the contribution to Racing and Sports of an informative weekly report on racing in Asia.
Bell, well regarded for his knowledge and views on the breeding industry, has raced or syndicated a number of successful horses in Australia and Singapore.
His first horse Seiger was a Group 3 winner of 10 races and over $220,000. He has subsequently been responsible for purchasing or selecting over 100 individual winners of more than 400 races, including current Group One stars Lord Essex and Fields of Omagh and past Group winners Gamine, Taj Quillo, Ark Regal, Mountain Rule, Pray for Colleen and Speeding Fine.
He has raced several winners in Singapore over the last two years including the Group winner St Kentigern.
Bell will move to Hong Kong next week in preparation for the Hong Kong Gold Cup meeting on February 23.
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