LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM THE JERRY CHAU SAGA…
He could come across to some as the man of mystery of Hong Kong racing- something like a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel, Zorro and...
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Hans Ebert
- Nov 20
- 4 min
Take a bow, Brenton Avdulla!
It’s tough when you’ve planned your Sunday weeks in advance, so that it includes lunch with friends, then watching a few races from Hong...
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Hans Ebert
- Nov 17
- 7 min
IS THIS THE MAN WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE INTERNATIONAL RACE FOR HONG KONG?
While processing and calculating next moves on that checker board of life and being in a city much more transient than before, it’s come...
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Hans Ebert
- Nov 14
- 3 min
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY…
It’s not exactly a secret with many in the horse racing tribe that signing on and receiving a license from the Hong Kong Jockey Club to...
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Hans Ebert
- Nov 13
- 6 min
Is horse racing airborne or heading for a crash landing?
By the time the various “mandatories” are included and everyone offers their input and output, any semblance of a concept to what’s being...
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Hans Ebert
- Nov 5
- 2 min
A LADY NAMED GAI AND THE POWERHOUSE BEHIND HORSE RACING
Of course, she’s in the starring role and is the marquee value name behind the brand. That’s a given. What’s always impressed me, however...
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Hans Ebert
- Oct 30
- 3 min
LESSONS TO BE LEARNED FROM DON DRAPER FOR FREE
What’s it all about, Alfie? Don’t think anyone really knows and which is why so much of almost everything out there remains nothing but...
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Hans Ebert
- Oct 1
- 3 min
GAI WATERHOUSE: A GROUP ONE WINNER IN LIFE
Spring might be in the air and it’s there to be seen in the quality of the racing and horsepower, plus there’s certainly a spring in the...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 20
- 3 min
A MIND SHIFT FOR HONG KONG AND ALL THOSE NEW ENTREPRENEURS AROUND THE WORLD...DIG?
It’s the obvious thing to say, so I’ll say it anyway: Hong Kong has an image problem, locally and overseas, and from a marketing point of...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 18
- 5 min
NOT JUST “NIGHT VIBES”, PAUL CHAN, BUT HONG KONG IS IN DIRE NEED OF GOOD VIBES, MAN...
What made that barren rock Hong Kong and the city that it became was its internationalism. This was an inexplicable and interesting...
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Hans Ebert
- Sep 11
- 2 min
Paul Chan: Hong Kong's Chief Fun Officer???
As those of us who still live here know, Hong Kong is desperately trying to get some semblance of its mojo back with the government’s...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 24
- 3 min
DOUGLAS WHYTE: CHAMPION
With a new Hong Kong racing season around the corner and Zac Purton out to start chipping away, this time, at the record held by Douglas...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 23
- 3 min
“What if a tech company bought a racing club for its gaming sector?”
It was a long overdue dinner with someone I first met almost twenty years ago when with EMI Music. Back then, he was exploring and...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 23
- 6 min
HORSE RACING AND THE GUARDING OF THE CHANGE (Or something like that)
There’s something reminiscent of the old West just before the steam engines started going through towns when thinking about the horse...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 15
- 1 min
THE MAGIC MAN BECOMES...THE MIRACLE MAN!
Like Lazarus from the bible, the miraculous healing of his one-time seemingly career-ending hip injury and the resurgence of the...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 15
- 4 min
DEANE LESTER WAS RIGHT THEN AND EVEN MORE RIGHT TODAY.
It was the late Australian racing analyst Deane Lester, below, who mentioned a couple of years ago that if people don’t like horse...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 9
- 5 min
ALONG CAME JONES
“I can understand where he’s trying to come from, but I don’t know where he’s going with anything and how he’s going to get there, or...
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Hans Ebert
- Aug 6
- 4 min
Opinion by Hans Ebert
Especially at a time when Hong Kong is trying to claw itself back to some form of relevance, music, especially ‘live’ music being part of...
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Hans Ebert
- Jul 17
- 4 min
THE PURTON FACTOR
What more is there to say about everything Zac Purton accomplished this year for and in horse racing, plus, after fourteen years in the...
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Hans Ebert
- Jul 10
- 4 min
Where, what and who to next for the Zac Attack?
Though he’s someone I consider to be a friend, I missed watching Zac Purton on Sunday break the record set by the brilliant Joao Moreira...
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