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THE WOEFUL PROMOTION OF SPORTS IN HONG KONG
There are many things going on In Hong Kong that one finds difficult to understand, but the sparse and amateurish marketing and promotion...

Hans Ebert
May 8, 20242 min read
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Racing B!tch
ANGUS CHUNG GRADUATES! POPPY GETS EMOTIONAL! While watching apprentice Ellis Wong ride a double at Happy Valley and quite an emotional...

Hans Ebert
May 4, 20242 min read
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TONY CRUZ COMES OUT FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS!
“I must say that this is one of the worst tracks I have seen in a long time. We all know the weather is bad and everything, but it’s...

Hans Ebert
May 3, 20242 min read
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Every great city needs a good MOM- Museum Of Music.
Someone I didn’t know at all, but where fate and timing brought us together for nothing else other than getting to know each other, was...

Hans Ebert
May 2, 20249 min read
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Racing B!tch
INSTANT KARMA! If ONE photo went against the grain of the old and stoic and captured the unscripted joy of seeing their horse Karma win a...

Hans Ebert
May 2, 20244 min read
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Racing B!tch
WHO IS GIVING EVERY BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE DIRECTION NEEDED? In every business, it’s always been about customer demographics,...

Hans Ebert
May 2, 20245 min read
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ROMANTIC WARRIOR AND JAMES MCDONALD: VERY SPECIAL CHAMPIONS ON FWD HK CHAMPIONS DAY
In a perfect world, where we knew what was coming next and the product personality of Hong Kong in 2024, it might have made sense to have...

Hans Ebert
Apr 28, 20243 min read
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Time for some Lips service, darling?
Nothing should surprise anyone anymore about the lengths many in Hong Kong go to in order to be seen and heard as saviours of the city...

Hans Ebert
Apr 28, 20244 min read
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IT’S TIME FOR A HONG KONG CHAMPIONS WEEKEND OR EVEN A MONTH.
At a time when Hong Kong needs champions, one can’t help wondering why instead of continuing in a piece meal fashion with bibs and bobs...

Hans Ebert
Apr 26, 20242 min read
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Noughts and Exes
https://travel.sina.cn/video/baidang/2019-03-03/detail-ihsxncvf9479925.d.html She’s not going to be happy that I have posted this, but...

Hans Ebert
Apr 25, 20242 min read
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Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.
Yesterday, I made the monumental and quite a Braveheart numbing decision to leave all social media platforms. The reasons for this had...

Hans Ebert
Apr 25, 20245 min read
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THE HKJC INTRODUCES SWEEPING MEASURES FOR THE BETTERMENT OF ON COURSE ENTERTAINMENT
In an effort to help raise the falling standards of English in the city, where, especially middle aged women in Hong Kong who don’t wish...

Hans Ebert
Apr 23, 20243 min read
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TAYLOR MADE BIG MACHINE CORPORATE SWIFTNESS
It really is whether one considers marketing to be manipulative and, perhaps, seductive, or whether marketing has to be creative and...

Hans Ebert
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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HAPPINESS, SASSINESS AND THE INEVITABLE UGLINESS…
There was no magic formula involved. If there was a ‘strategy’, it was to give everyone their own space to have fun and for them to use...

Hans Ebert
Apr 21, 20245 min read
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Why social media is taking us nowhere and Solina Chau can take us somewhere.
It’s interesting and also extremely worrying how things, especially human things, change because of technological advances, adopt their...

Hans Ebert
Apr 17, 20243 min read
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HOW DOES HK RACING ADD UP?
Though there wasn’t a word about champion jockey Zac Purton failing to ride a winner despite having almost a full book of rides and quite...

Hans Ebert
Apr 15, 20244 min read
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SWIMMING WITH SHARKS
From the top of the mountain To a house of cards Who’s there swimming With the toothless sharks? What happened to all those We thought...

Hans Ebert
Apr 13, 20241 min read
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WHAT IS THE HKJC DOING ABOUT A SUNSET INDUSTRY WITH BANDAIDS
Frankly, we don’t buy into much of what’s written below as it reads like some desperate, and badly managed ping pong match that can go on...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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When Nic Met Wini And Harry Met Sally
Nic: It appears, Mr CEO, that the Club has made some rather bold and perhaps even desperate moves to attract and retain new horse owners....

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
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Alibaba And How To Open Sesame
One hopes that those leading horse racing clubs come down from their high horses and learn something from what Alibaba founder Jack Ma...

Hans Ebert
Apr 12, 20241 min read
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