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HONG KONG, HORSE RACING AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Someone who lives and breathes Hong Kong racing just as he has for the past forty something years was having dinner with us and...

Hans Ebert
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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Looking into the future of horse racing...
RACING CLUB LEADERS FINALLY ADMIT TO BEING CLUELESS! Racing clubs, racing executives and the racing media finally admit that they are...

Hans Ebert
Apr 17, 20234 min read
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James Oldring and Quokka put a new spring in Perth racing’s step...
Never send a boy to do a man’s job nor lumber over to the old boys racing well and haul in another plodder for something long overdue-...

Hans Ebert
Apr 16, 20233 min read
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Part Deux of looking into the future of horse racing...
Brand new heavies and new besties Peter V’Landys and Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, supremos of Racing New South Wales and the Hong Kong...

Hans Ebert
Apr 11, 20233 min read
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Part One of looking into the future of horse racing...
* After a couple of years of doing the foxtrot with the racing media, Zac Purton finally announces his retirement from horse racing to...

Hans Ebert
Apr 10, 20233 min read
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Where’s the beef? And where is there real leadership?
It was just another marshmallow Thursday in Hong Kong, and there I was after two hours of reflexology and then getting my chakras sorted...

Hans Ebert
Apr 8, 20234 min read
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A Celebration of Hong Kong’s sporting heroes and creative talent.
Why not, dim sums and dumplings? Sports news being relegated to the back pages of newspapers and mentioned at the end of television news...

Hans Ebert
Apr 5, 20232 min read
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Hong Kong racing’s unsung heroes...
They’re not tipsters and definitely can’t be termed “punters", but they’re very possibly the purest variety of the Hong Kong racing fan-...

Hans Ebert
Apr 3, 20234 min read
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Horse racing in the post pandemic era
It was a very different time in the world when brought in by The Big Poohbah himself to take a look and see if the Beer Garden at Happy...

Hans Ebert
Mar 31, 20234 min read
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Alexis Badel: Karma, irony and his winning John Wick Moment
Call it karma, call it irony, call it the script to a possible movie, but Sunday at Shatin was packed full of entertainment, action, and...

Hans Ebert
Mar 20, 20232 min read
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Zac Purton: Different gravy and the new recipes needed...
Sixteen years ago, a 24 year old Australian jockey jockey named Zac Purton arrived in Hong Kong with wife Nicole. It was one giant leap...

Hans Ebert
Mar 17, 20236 min read
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Jerry Chau: Riding Tall.
He received a late call up to Hong Kong when fellow apprentice Gary Lo made a stuttering start-screech-stop Hello to Hong Kong by having...

Hans Ebert
Mar 10, 20233 min read
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Saturday at Randwick and a different kinda Zac Attack...
It’s always been about timing. And karma. So when Australian Zac Purton returned to his home in Sydney late last week after a...

Hans Ebert
Mar 6, 20234 min read
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THE FRADDSTER AND THE CHANGING FACE OF RACING
He’s easing himself into his new career as a mentor for leading Queensland-based jockey Angela Jones, below, and news this week of...

Hans Ebert
Mar 1, 20232 min read
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My Father Played Piano
My father played piano He was the first person I heard sing He might not have been perfect But he taught me musical things About chords...

Hans Ebert
Feb 27, 20231 min read
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Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan Man-po is high on life.
’s actually happier than a Pharrell Williams song and happier than the morning sun and sees happy Hong Kong people happily interacting...

Hans Ebert
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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When horse racing is no longer seen as being a gamble...
There’s no doubt that Jamie Kah truly cares about her horses. It’s not all about riding for the prize money, becoming more and more...

Hans Ebert
Feb 20, 20237 min read
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THE 39TH RUNNING OF THE ASIAN RACING CONFERENCE (BUT WITHOUT PETE)
The Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges aka E.B, and Chairman of almost every horse racing...

Hans Ebert
Feb 16, 202310 min read
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Jamie Richards says, Hellooooo, Hong Kong. Or something like that.
While Hong Kong is trying to find its mojo and attract tourists, the young Trainer has almost been holding auditions. Maybe he has been...

Hans Ebert
Feb 13, 20232 min read
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Horse Racing’s Strange Reluctance To Change...(and join the Netflix Streaming Generation)
In advertising, there is what’s known as Trade advertising and consumer advertising. There is and never has been a blurring of the lines....

Hans Ebert
Feb 8, 20233 min read
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