Blog | Hans Ebert

MIKE SMITH AND NETFLIX AND THE HKJC ON THE SLOW BOAT TO CHINA

https://usasnews.com/posts/breaking-news-legendary-jockey-mike-smith-has-sent-the-entire-horse-racing-world-into-a-frenzy-afte-thanhtam/?utm_source=facebook Gawd knows there have been so many times when I have had to bite my tongue so hard to not burst out laughing listening to those who have no idea about the business model of the streaming service that’s Netflix thinking that that anything and everything produced, including horse racing, will be accepted. So very wrong, Ton

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Hong Kong life: Changing Scenes and Schemes.

Those were the times and whether for better or worse, it’s what it was and depending on one’s career path, it’s what led us to wherever the hell we were going with no Google Maps to show us the way. Were we fraught with problems and danger and careful about where life took us? Not really, because as the Stones’ once sang, we were caught in a crossfire hurricane and it was alright, because there was nothing to compare it to- something was there and we had to try it no matter h

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One person’s Champagne Supernova.

It seems like years since I have been to the Champagne Bar at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and maybe it has even though I have actually not been there for a few months. I should because they have one of the best bona fide Jazz singer I have heard performing in Hong Kong. The real deal, so to speak. But, as always, it’s people who make a city and everything else… The Champagne Bar was our favourite meeting place for so many reasons. There was the convenience of the venue which was j

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WHERE’S THE MUSIC GONE, HONG KONG?

It really doesn’t take an Einstein to understand this, but during these days of “influencers” and influenzas and clodhoppers and KOLs and where so much of everything has been really really really dumbed down and me really really really being a music guy who has helped run the regional offices of Universal Music and EMI Music and worked with artists as diverse as Norah Jones and Gorillaz to Faye Wong and Jackie Cheung, and since the majority of the tourists to Hong Kong are to

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HAS THE HKJC BECOME TOO MUCH OF A ONE MAN BAND?

With a new byline covering the New Year’s Day race meeting at Shatin and writing about “a slow start to the day” before a “festive atmosphere ultimately drew almost 50,000 spectators including nearly 10,000 from the mainland”, it was hardly any surprise for Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO and official cheerleader to describe the day as “terrific”. Written by someone named Mike Chan, we particularly liked reading this little morsel: “Meanwhile, a re

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THE RIVER THAT DANCES THROUGH JESSIE BUCKLEY…

When you’re jaundiced and cynical, believe that you’ve seen and heard it all, and when you’re lost with Mr Bob in Juarez and it’s winter time, too, and negativity won’t pull you through somehow, and seemingly out of nowhere, this amazing talent comes along and puts your house of chaos into some semblance of order and with you able to focus on what truly matters and allow the peripheral clutter to dissolve into hot cocoa, because your personal Jesus is still looking after you.

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ISA GUHA, MBE AND ABOUT TAKING HER LEAD

She’s extremely knowledgeable, not only about cricket, but how her role in the game can help give back to others and which shapes and reshapes the world of cricket. Isa Guha is a game changer and she does this with humility, with no need for showboating and the work of her charity takeherlead.org shows how inclusive and inspiring cricket can be. This has to do with this remarkable person’s integrity and poise, confidence and sense of humour of which she has plenty, something

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