Today's race meeting at Sha Tin will go ahead as planned after Jockey Club work riders yesterday agreed to suspend their strike.
After trackwork was severely disrupted for a third successive morning, the work riders and the club agreed to meet tomorrow afternoon for fresh pay talks.
After some refused to attend work for two days, about 80 members of the Hong Kong Horse Racing (Local) Association escalated their labour action by staging a sit-in at 5am on an access road at Sha Tin Racecourse, preventing horse floats headed for Happy Valley from leaving the ground.
The sit-in came after the Jockey Club posted a notice at the stables on Friday afternoon in which it threatened to discipline or fire any work riders taking part in the strike.
One protester was taken to hospital during the standoff yesterday morning after claiming he had been hurt in a scuffle with the club's security staff.
The protesters called off their action at around 10am after the club said it would meet them tomorrow to resolve the dispute.
'We don't want to create trouble,' said association chairman Hung Kwok-hing, adding that the group only wanted to talk with the club to resolve the dispute.
