On Saturday, horses took part in a race for the last time in China's Macao Special Administrative Region. This ended a more than 40-year-long tradition of horse racing in the former Portuguese colony 50 kilometers west of Hong Kong.
Horse racing in Macau has been barely profitable in recent years and has not yet recovered from the effects of the pandemic. In neighboring Hong Kong, horse racing remains popular and profitable. The Southeast Asian city-state of Singapore, where many ethnic Chinese live, has also announced that it will no longer hold horse races.