Hong Kong racing and the importance of nostalgia today.
In the brilliant “Mad Men” television series about the early days of advertising in Madison Avenue, the character known as Don Draper...
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Hans Ebert
May 18, 20233 min read
New mindsets and opening those windows of Change.
It’s not an Eureka Moment, but more of a reminder that has to do with words like “empathy” and “caring” and caring enough to do your part...
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Hans Ebert
May 16, 20235 min read
Horse racing and the need for more empathy... and not more money.
There are many things about horse racing, and especially Hong Kong racing, that the more I know, the more that I don’t understand. But,...
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Hans Ebert
May 13, 20233 min read
JIGGERING UP THE OLD HORSE RACING CAROUSEL AGAIN...
For someone who’s always been on the outside looking in and only flirting with this pastime known as horse racing, I’ve always listened...
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Hans Ebert
May 9, 20233 min read
Honestas Ante Honoras
Those of us who attended the secondary school known as KGV(King George V) located at 2 Tin Kwong Road, Kowloon during the Sixties and...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 30, 20232 min read
And then Merlin waved his wand…
Sometimes it starts for no reason It’s like you’re trying to find your way You row past the mists of Avalon And stumble upon a very...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 30, 20231 min read
THE NEXT COMING OF THE TAO OF ZAC!!!
Apart from all the everything else that was going on almost every minute of every day to ensure that the FWD sponsored Champions Day...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 27, 20233 min read
Looking into the and future etc
PSSSSSST!!! SEND IN THE CLOWNS!!! IT’S A CIRCUS OUT THERE!!! The Hong Kong Jockey Club hires a lion tamer because of the number of...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 24, 20235 min read
WHEN FRANCESCA CUMANI, ASPIRATION AND HORSE RACING WENT HAND IN HAND
Someone I know who stumbles in and out of horse racing according to her wants and needs and challenges me about many things in life in...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 18, 20234 min read
CAN HORSE RACING BE SAVED FROM ITSELF?
Maybe they’re now known as something else, but when in advertising, us in the creative department looked forward to working on PSAs-...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 17, 20234 min read
HONG KONG, HORSE RACING AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Someone who lives and breathes Hong Kong racing just as he has for the past forty something years was having dinner with us and...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 17, 20234 min read
Looking into the future of horse racing...
RACING CLUB LEADERS FINALLY ADMIT TO BEING CLUELESS! Racing clubs, racing executives and the racing media finally admit that they are...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 16, 20233 min read
James Oldring and Quokka put a new spring in Perth racing’s step...
Never send a boy to do a man’s job nor lumber over to the old boys racing well and haul in another plodder for something long overdue-...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 11, 20233 min read
Part Deux of looking into the future of horse racing...
Brand new heavies and new besties Peter V’Landys and Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, supremos of Racing New South Wales and the Hong Kong...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 10, 20233 min read
Part One of looking into the future of horse racing...
* After a couple of years of doing the foxtrot with the racing media, Zac Purton finally announces his retirement from horse racing to...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 8, 20234 min read
Where’s the beef? And where is there real leadership?
It was just another marshmallow Thursday in Hong Kong, and there I was after two hours of reflexology and then getting my chakras sorted...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 5, 20232 min read
A Celebration of Hong Kong’s sporting heroes and creative talent.
Why not, dim sums and dumplings? Sports news being relegated to the back pages of newspapers and mentioned at the end of television news...
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Hans Ebert
Apr 3, 20234 min read
Hong Kong racing’s unsung heroes...
They’re not tipsters and definitely can’t be termed “punters", but they’re very possibly the purest variety of the Hong Kong racing fan-...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 31, 20234 min read
Horse racing in the post pandemic era
It was a very different time in the world when brought in by The Big Poohbah himself to take a look and see if the Beer Garden at Happy...
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Hans Ebert
Mar 20, 20232 min read
Alexis Badel: Karma, irony and his winning John Wick Moment
Call it karma, call it irony, call it the script to a possible movie, but Sunday at Shatin was packed full of entertainment, action, and...
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