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The Day Zac Purton Transcended Horse Racing.
Frankly speaking, I didn’t care who would win Sunday’s BMW Hong Kong Derby at Shatin. I was coming down from watching FIVE Group 1 races...

Hans Ebert
Mar 25, 20242 min read


Hans Ebert on the Far Side type of Chow Fan Strategy to sell Hong Kong to the outside world in 2024…
There might be the illusion, or some might call it the delusion, created by smoke and broken mirrors, that’s more often than not, a...

Hans Ebert
Mar 24, 20244 min read


WHAT’S TRENDING AND TANKING IN HONG KONG
Stupidity And Ignorance And Superficiality are rife. It’s everywhere- and not just hiding between the lines either. Stupidity doesn’t...

Hans Ebert
Mar 23, 20242 min read


THE LATEST ODDS AS TO WHO WILL BE THE NEXT HKJC CEO!
With this horse racing season being somewhere between Twin Peaks and A Tale Of Two Cities and a soupçon of “Barbie”, the interest level...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20242 min read
Kristine
We certainly had a tumultuous relationship, but what we never told each other enough was how much we meant to each other and maybe how we...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20241 min read
I don’t see very smart people
I don’t see very smart people I see many trying to be who they’re not I see too many chasing false dreams Betting and losing what they...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20241 min read
The walls are closing in
The walls are closing in and the woodblock prints are melting They say that Jimmy’s opened its doors again But is what’s on the menu...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20242 min read


Where does horse racing fit into the jigsaw puzzle of Hong Kong?
None of us are getting younger, Hong Kong has changed forever largely because of the events of 2018/2019, and, as has been written here...

Hans Ebert
Mar 22, 20244 min read
Regrets? Yeah, sure I have a few. (Journography bits #8)
Regrets? Yeah, sure I have a few. I guess the leader of the pack is not making the time to see my father before he left this world and...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20241 min read
Nothing has stuck because THERE IS NO SUSTAINABILITY.
There comes a time, the Walrus said, to speak of many things, but with these things being a litany of odds and sods to get Hong Kong back...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20241 min read
It had everything that money could buy
It had everything that money could buy. It could even buy money. Everybody was happy. Then came the darkness and everyone masked their...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20241 min read
It’s difficult to explain my feelings about horse racing. They are very mixed. Like nuts. (Journography bits #6)
It’s difficult to explain my feelings about horse racing. They are very mixed. Like nuts. Let’s just say that being part of horse racing,...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20242 min read
AFTER THE HUNTERS KILLED BAMBI’S MOTHER AND VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR… (Journography bits #5)
Video Killed The Radio Star. The Bugles sang that and maybe they were right or the song was right for the times and the launch of MTV in...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20245 min read


HONG KONG RACING GOES KINDA GEORGE COSTANZA SOFT…
From “Slamming” Sam Agars of the SCMP: “Zac Purton has been hot on the condition of Hong Kong’s tracks throughout the season and the...

Hans Ebert
Mar 19, 20243 min read


THE SEARCH FOR RED OCTOBER AND THE SUCCESSOR FOR WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES CONTINUES…
He’s humble, but proud, honest like Keyser Soze, sometimes an enigma like Chauncey Gardener and strong in character like- maybe- Fredo...

Hans Ebert
Mar 17, 20243 min read


HORSE RACING AND COMING FACE TO FACE WITH THE GENERATION GAP.
“Horse racing people are so busy talking to themselves and other horse racing people that they believe everyone else thinks like them and...

Hans Ebert
Mar 15, 20248 min read


PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. FOR ME. JUST ONE MORE TIME. PLEASE, SAM.
It’s a long running horse opera and which some of us have seen played out over the years. But when it’s summertime, and the living is...

Hans Ebert
Mar 15, 20242 min read
Horse racing people are so busy speaking to other horse racing people that they often believe that everyone else thinks of them. (Journography bits #4)
“Horse racing people are so busy speaking to other horse racing people that they often believe that everyone else thinks of them”. This...

Hans Ebert
Mar 13, 20245 min read


ODDS ON WHO WILL FINALLY SUCCEED WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES AS CEO OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB!!!
Of course, prying the HKJC CEO away from his hallowed power base on the 16th floor of 1 Sports Road might not happen until 2089, but,...

Hans Ebert
Mar 12, 20242 min read


James Ross to Hong Kong…and The Peter V’Landys Principle.
It’s always made those of us who are happy being on the fringes of the horse racing world in Hong Kong wonder about the changing...

Hans Ebert
Mar 12, 20242 min read
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