Blog | Hans Ebert

BLABBALOO AND THE ARF ARF PEOPLE!!!

What can one say about the dulcet tones and The Online Voice of Australian racing that is Gareth Hall? Entertaining, definitely, and like a dog with a bone, when after a story where he might sniff a bet, he becomes as hard working and committed as James Brown about gettin’ it on up and getting on it. Particularly arresting is when he basically salivates whenever interviewing a jockey or trainer for even a morsel of what might be considered a tip, something he turned into a fi

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BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! THE RETURN OF ARF ARF!!! MORE HOWLING AT THE MOON!!!

“Billionaires' and Royalist clubs trying to attract the mass market... interesting”. The problem is that it’s 2026 and there’s still the same old problem, and instead of this problem going away, there are actually more problems, because those given the reins to solve problems, perhaps don’t wish to as opposed to not knowing what to do next. Why? Because maybe actually solving problems might make those who have been leading the band like Guy Lombardo did might feel that they c

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Can Hong Kong ever be Cool?

I’m writing this early in the morning with the Beatles playing in the background, listening to some of their earliest originals and wondering how they wrote and produced all the music that they did and swept many of us up in a groundswell of awe and joy while also asking us why we couldn’t write a song like “Girl” or “I’ll Follow The Sun” or the very much overlooked “I’ll Be Back” or, well, just something that came even close to what they were doing before Strawberry Fields F

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IS THE HKJC PIVOTING INTO EQUESTRIAN SPORTS AND THE YEAR OF THE HORSE?

As it’s seemingly become The Word Of The Day, why not use “pivot” and ask whether the Hong Kong Jockey Club is pivoting towards far more emphasis and effort in the promotion and marketing of equestrian events? With the Lunar New Year of the Horse around the corner and Longines very much involved in horses and time keeping in the sport that goes back to 1869 and the first pocket watch while investing in a more affluent and sophisticated audience that started with the advertisi

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When OneTeam comes together…

I’ve been talking about teamwork for a few years now and how the type of teamwork where all the parts fit might not lead to instant fame and riches, but it lays down the groundwork from where the unexpected can grow. What I have been seeing now for years is the lack of real teamwork, because maybe the different parts don’t really fit for one reason or another, but mainly because of an “imbalance” in talent and different levels of experience and maybe even tolerance. Often, I

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WHEN BEING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY’S ODD COUPLE PAID DIVIDENDS…

We called ourselves “Walter and Jack” after the two characters in “The Odd Couple”, and the name stuck because it was true: We were Asia’s odd couple of the music industry, and also, very possibly, the most successful. It worked to have one of us who talked softly and carried a big stick and the other who enjoyed being a big stick and having some thinking he was a whack job who had a short fuse. Norman (Cheng) and I read the tea leaves extremely well. We almost magically and

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Finding Happiness In The Celebratory Dance Of “Hamnet” and Rihanna!

It’s very hard to explain when there are mental roadblocks stopping new flows of positive energy from breaking through, but as I was telling someone last night, if the world could somehow drink from the same cup as Jessie Buckley, we might actually find the magic fuel to Happiness- and with Happiness leading to a conga line of Hope and Energy and Inspiration. This was after watching the clip above where the entire crew dance to Rihanna’s “I Found Love”, an idea by Chloe Zhao,

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