香港賽馬場的華洋風景（1841-1945）

賽馬引入香港已有百餘年歷史，殖民政府利用賭博牽制華人，自隔離政策、1918年馬棚火災、1925年罷工潮等不公的事件爆發，歷經波折，不僅未影響華人對賽馬的熱愛程度，反而喚醒華人在英人統治領土下自身地位的追求。因此，本研究以歷史研究法，輔以當時出版的報紙、刊物和香港記憶（香港賽馬會資料庫）舊照片，透過相關文獻進行解讀和分析，並進行整理與歸納以暸解香港洋人與華人在賽馬活動中的地位變化和相關發展。研究發現：（一）英國殖民香港之初快速將賽馬及其他運動引入並發展，至1920年代前，許多會所、活動和體育運動均未見華人身影，賽馬場內外存在極大的地位差異，然而，這只是當時社會中的冰山一角。（二）1918年，賽馬場內發生馬棚火災後、後續又有工人運動和省港大罷工，各種事件相繼發生，以致華人民族意識抬頭，欲擺脫舊有不公平制度，也因此，英人遂從強硬的治港方式轉為懷柔政策，香港賽馬會也開始接納華人會員和使用華人騎師。（三）罷工隔年賽馬會破天荒讓兩位華人加入賽馬會，此時，華人仍未有任何決策權，唯獨日佔時期為華人開啟另一道大門。

關鍵字

跑馬地；華人地位；賽馬場；香港賽馬會；殖民遺緒

並列摘要

Horse racing has been introduced more than one century in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, betting on horse racing used to be the partial colonial rule to rein in the Hong Kong Chinese. Despite unjust incidents such as the segregation policy, the Happy Valley Racecourse fire in 1918, and the Canton–Hong Kong strike in 1925. The Hong Kong Chinese are not only addicted to horse racing but also realize that their status and social value have to be improved under British colonial rule. Therefore, this research aims to study the status and the relationship between foreigners and ethnic Chinese of Hong Kong horse racing activities and goes with historical analysis and literature review on newspapers, the related publications, and old photos of the Hong Kong Jockey Club database. Three major findings of this study are as follows: firstly, the British Empire introduced and promote horse racing and other sports in Hong Kong quickly in the early colonial period. However, the Hong Kong Chinese rarely participated in clubs, activities, and sports events before the 1920s. The gap between foreigners and ethnic Chinese was still widening, the disparity of horse racing was only a microcosm of the colonized community at the time. Secondly, besides the Happy Valley Racecourse fire incident, there were the labor movement and the Canton–Hong Kong strike, the succession of events occurred in 1918 which led up to the Chinese national consciousness of the Hong Kong Chinese and therefore they want to overthrow the old regime. As a result, the colonizer changed the policy from forcing to conciliating. The Hong Kong Jockey Club also started receiving Chinese members and jockeys. Finally, the Hong Kong Jockey Club unexpectedly allowed two Chinese to join the Club in 1926. In contrast, the ethnic Chinese still unable to involve in decision-making until Hong Kong was under Japanese rule and that turned over a new leaf of horse racing.