HKIR 2024: WHY IT MUST BE THE MUTHA OF THEM ALL
Though the usual suspects from the horse racing world will make their annual pilgrimage to Hong Kong and the International Races, one...
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Hans Ebert
6 days ago4 min read
THE EVOLUTION OF HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG
It’s almost impossible to describe horse racing in Hong Kong without experiencing what it is, first hand, and making the time to...
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Hans Ebert
Nov 136 min read
SAVING HONG KONG’S MUSIC MOSH PIT FROM ITSELF!
When you see a group of people in Hong Kong eating caviar with steamed rice and soya and tomato sauce, and others staring into their...
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Hans Ebert
Nov 84 min read
WHERE DID ALL THE GREAT ADVERTISING GO?
It was 1983 and British Airways had launched their groundbreaking “Manhattan” commercial. Suddenly, all us young creatives in advertising...
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Hans Ebert
Nov 63 min read
LIFE JOURNEYS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
It’s been a strange and almost surreal week. I lost my personal historian and favourite storyteller in record producer, arranger and...
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Hans Ebert
Oct 313 min read
THE LOST CITY OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE!
As Hong Kong kicks and bucks, stumbles and tries to reboot itself by its straps into somehow looking attractive to international...
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Hans Ebert
Oct 254 min read
NEW TERM RISING: ZACOLOGY!
When Zac Purton was fairly recently quoted as saying that it’s not exactly a walk in the park for him to get on the “winningest” horses...
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Hans Ebert
Oct 234 min read
START WITH ONE SMALL STEP FOR THE CHILDREN, HONG KONG
It was interesting to read that in his policy address, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John KS Lee floated the idea of children being allowed...
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Hans Ebert
Oct 215 min read
RACING’S PERCOLATING COFFEY MATE
Being pretty much born into the creative world because of a mother who was an artist and a father who eked out a living as a part time...
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Hans Ebert
Oct 75 min read
ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
It was finally giving into almost three weeks of soldiering on with a clogged left ear, and then suddenly being hit with an excruciating...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 265 min read
Can Hong Kong’s “Can Do Spirit” return?
What many in Hong Kong continue to do is tiptoe around the elephant in the room as to why new international talent and tourists from the...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 223 min read
ON THE LAM.
It was Paul Ewing, below, then heading up EMI Music in the region, who swam against the tide by signing up George Lam and released his...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 117 min read
WHY HONG KONG IS STARTING TO REMIND ME OF JOE BIDEN.
It was interesting though not exactly a surprise to read an entire page in the South China Morning Post on Thursday devoted to mentioning...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 93 min read
Making his mark in Hong Kong: Mark Newnham
A good friend of mine who knows and follows horse racing refers to trainer Mark Newnham as “The Simon Cowell of horse racing”, someone...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 73 min read
BEN THOMPSON GOES BALLISTIC DURING THE TWILIGHT ZONE AT SHATIN!
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t, and it’s understandable why the HKJC has introduced Twilight racing with its “sunset vibes”,...
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Hans Ebert
Jul 33 min read
DING DONG, HONG KONG, IT’S TIME TO RAISE OUR GAME.
Just like that maudlin song about how, “There comes a time”, there’s no time like the present why some of us proud Hong Kong Belongers...
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Hans Ebert
Jun 293 min read
SHE’S WAY TOO SWIFT…
I was half joking to some friends in horse racing that if Taylor Swift came onboard as an advisor to a racing club, the pastime might...
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Hans Ebert
Jun 264 min read
THE “MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS” ISSUE
Guess it must have been one of those karmic and third eye moments where when we tried to make those highly paid racing executives running...
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Hans Ebert
Jun 247 min read
That Sinking Feeling Issue
Let’s face it, only the Royal Ascot carnival that ended last week can pull off the pomp and circumstance surrounding the brilliant equine...
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Hans Ebert
Jun 139 min read
Thank you, Keith Reinhard. Time for effective Chief Learning Officers (CLOs)
It was something asked recently during a Zoom call meeting when, after discussing whatever little we know about AI had run its course, I...
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