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THE HKJC GETS ALL GIDDY AND DARK AND VERY WEIRD!
It’s deep, yet shallow, sissy, yet masculine, childlike though chilling and giving off a Halloween and Chung Yeung vibe for Hong Kong racing with rather spooky horsey dance moves borrowed from Gangham style by some people in the scary looking empty setting of Happy Valley racecourse. Far better and more “Thriller” if it was filmed at midnight in the Happy Valley cemetery. Especially deep and probing are the thought provoking deluge of naughty “lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lahs

Hans Ebert
Nov 31 min read


DJANGO UNCHAINED
********************* We couldn’t help overhearing a very senior Biggie Small executive with the HKJC, and someone who really should know better, dismiss jockey Mark Zahra’s accomplishments by telling his dinner guest, how “he couldn’t ride a winner when in Hong Kong”. This rather telling remark was a couple of weeks before the double Melbourne Cup winning rider rode four consecutive winners at Flemington on Saturday’s Victoria Derby Day including two winners for the new God

Hans Ebert
Nov 34 min read


For my friend Rob Foenander…
Thanks for the happiness you’re bringing to those who might have disappeared into themselves, Rob. My mom did when she lost her battle with Alzheimer’s and I didn’t know what to do, so I blocked it out and let Trina deal with it. I was scared, whereas Trina being Trina had that kindness and inner resolve to promise my parents that they would leave here with dignity. And they did. For bringing some joy to the Hyland family on Tuesday afternoon and especially, father and grandf

Hans Ebert
Oct 302 min read
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