Racing: Hong Kong racing reeling after arrests

Hong Kong racing was reeling on Thursday following the arrest of 19 people, including two jockeys, in connection with alleged race-fixing.

The raids, carried out by the Hong Kong Government-backed Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), were made on Wednesday night.

Those arrested included four Hong Kong Jockey Club employees, a suspected illegal bookmaker and a gambling consultant.

An ICAC statement read: ‘‘It is alleged that the two jockeys and the four Hong Kong Jockey Club employees had accepted advantages from illegal bookmakers as rewards for supplying racing information and manipulating race results.’’

The ICAC declined to identify the jockeys.