Occupation Trainer Career wins 830+ | Name Brian Kan Role Horse trainer | |
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Brian Kan Ping-chee (簡炳墀) (born 24 November 1937) is a five-time champion horse trainer and politician in Hong Kong.
Kan began in horse training in 1978 and has trained a Hong Kong record of over 830 winners and the winners of 100 Cup races. He is five-time champion of 1986/87‚ 87/88‚ 88/89‚ 89/90‚ 2000/01 and his best season was 63 winners in 1989/90. He won the very first Hong Kong Cup in 1987/88 with Flying Dancer. Has also trained five Hong Kong Derby winners (most recently Industrial Pioneer in 2001) and the winner of the 2000 Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup‚ Industrialist.
He is an indigenous inhabitant (Hakka) born in Sheung Shui in Northern New Territories. He participated in rural politics and was the member of the Provisional Regional Council, North District Council from 2000 to 2004, and the Election Committee from 2000 to 2006 as the representative of the Sheung Shui Rural Committee and Heung Yee Kuk. He ran for the Legislative Council elections in 1995, 1998 and 2000 but was not elected.
Kan was convicted in November 2011 of electoral corruption in the village representative election in 2011. Kan offered HK$130,000 to a village representative to vote for him as Sheung Shui Rural Committee chairman, which carries ex-officio membership of the Heung Yee Kuk.