Tony Cruz: 1500 Not Out
At a time when Hong Kong needs home grown heroes, it was apt that one of the city’s favourite sons in Tony Cruz trained his 1500th winner...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 16 min read
Hans Ebert on the image of horse racing: Has it changed with the times? Really?
It might have gone unnoticed to many, especially those with better things to do with their time than stream horse racing from Meydan on...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 313 min read
HOW RACING IN MACAU TURNED INTO A TASTELESS EGG TART.
There was something ironic tinged with sadness to see one of Macau’s favourite sons in champion trainer and jockey Tony Cruz bathing in...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 314 min read
The Week That Had Hong Kong Sheikhing All Over.
Of course, Hong Kong has always been a golden magnet with a glittering Welcome mat laid out there to those from overseas with a good...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 252 min read
The Day Zac Purton Transcended Horse Racing.
Frankly speaking, I didn’t care who would win Sunday’s BMW Hong Kong Derby at Shatin. I was coming down from watching FIVE Group 1 races...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 244 min read
Hans Ebert on the Far Side type of Chow Fan Strategy to sell Hong Kong to the outside world in 2024…
There might be the illusion, or some might call it the delusion, created by smoke and broken mirrors, that’s more often than not, a...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 232 min read
WHAT’S TRENDING AND TANKING IN HONG KONG
Stupidity And Ignorance And Superficiality are rife. It’s everywhere- and not just hiding between the lines either. Stupidity doesn’t...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 222 min read
THE LATEST ODDS AS TO WHO WILL BE THE NEXT HKJC CEO!
With this horse racing season being somewhere between Twin Peaks and A Tale Of Two Cities and a soupçon of “Barbie”, the interest level...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 221 min read
Kristine
We certainly had a tumultuous relationship, but what we never told each other enough was how much we meant to each other and maybe how we...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 221 min read
I don’t see very smart people
I don’t see very smart people I see many trying to be who they’re not I see too many chasing false dreams Betting and losing what they...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 222 min read
The walls are closing in
The walls are closing in and the woodblock prints are melting They say that Jimmy’s opened its doors again But is what’s on the menu...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 224 min read
Where does horse racing fit into the jigsaw puzzle of Hong Kong?
None of us are getting younger, Hong Kong has changed forever largely because of the events of 2018/2019, and, as has been written here...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 191 min read
Regrets? Yeah, sure I have a few. (Journography bits #8)
Regrets? Yeah, sure I have a few. I guess the leader of the pack is not making the time to see my father before he left this world and...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 191 min read
Nothing has stuck because THERE IS NO SUSTAINABILITY.
There comes a time, the Walrus said, to speak of many things, but with these things being a litany of odds and sods to get Hong Kong back...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 191 min read
It had everything that money could buy
It had everything that money could buy. It could even buy money. Everybody was happy. Then came the darkness and everyone masked their...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 192 min read
It’s difficult to explain my feelings about horse racing. They are very mixed. Like nuts. (Journography bits #6)
It’s difficult to explain my feelings about horse racing. They are very mixed. Like nuts. Let’s just say that being part of horse racing,...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 195 min read
AFTER THE HUNTERS KILLED BAMBI’S MOTHER AND VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR… (Journography bits #5)
Video Killed The Radio Star. The Bugles sang that and maybe they were right or the song was right for the times and the launch of MTV in...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 193 min read
HONG KONG RACING GOES KINDA GEORGE COSTANZA SOFT…
From “Slamming” Sam Agars of the SCMP: “Zac Purton has been hot on the condition of Hong Kong’s tracks throughout the season and the...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 173 min read
THE SEARCH FOR RED OCTOBER AND THE SUCCESSOR FOR WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES CONTINUES…
He’s humble, but proud, honest like Keyser Soze, sometimes an enigma like Chauncey Gardener and strong in character like- maybe- Fredo...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 158 min read
HORSE RACING AND COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE GENERATION GAP.
“Horse racing people are so busy talking to themselves and other horse racing people that they believe everyone else thinks like them and...
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