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ABOUT CREATIVITY AND BUILDING BRIDGES AND BRINGING DOWN WALLS.
We cannot blame everything on the free streaming of music in the jungles of streaming services though it’s stating the obvious that all...

Hans Ebert
Dec 14, 20233 min read


OF MENTORS, MICE AND MEN AND ADVERTISING’S MAD MEN…
I was extremely lucky to have at least 3-4 very good mentors in advertising and the music industry. They were knowledgeable and generous...

Hans Ebert
Dec 11, 20237 min read


HONG KONG AND THE GREATEST SHOW ON TURF
While those of us whose home is Hong Kong navigate our way through daily life in the new abnormal of this remarkable city that has a...

Hans Ebert
Dec 4, 20232 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 27, 20234 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 20, 20234 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 17, 20237 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 14, 20233 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 13, 20236 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Nov 5, 20232 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Oct 30, 20233 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Oct 1, 20233 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Sep 20, 20233 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Sep 18, 20235 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Sep 11, 20232 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 24, 20233 min read


“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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 23, 20233 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 23, 20236 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20231 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 15, 20234 min read


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...

Hans Ebert
Aug 9, 20235 min read
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