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WHEN WINGS ARE CLIPPED ALONG WITH FLIGHTS OF FANCY
Right now we’re all on the edge of a feather expecting to fly, and either waiting to be pushed or needing more time for wings to grow and...

Hans Ebert
Dec 18, 20243 min read


The pen is mightier than the sword
The pen is mightier than the sword Until it runs out of ink That’s when that rainbow connection Becomes maybe some place for a drink ...

Hans Ebert
Dec 18, 20241 min read


HONG KONG RACING AND BEING AHEAD OF THE PACK!
Bob Dylan wrote the words below around forty years ago. With the much anticipated biopic on the singer-songwriter’s early days out...

Hans Ebert
Dec 17, 20241 min read


BEATLES AND PIECES AND PEACE AND LOVE…
Who knows why they came together when they did, and how they brought about such fabulous fabness around the world that still exists today...

Hans Ebert
Dec 16, 20246 min read


HONG KONG AND HOW LESS IS MORE THAN MEGA!
Once upon a dim sum and long before tripping over and tripping out on the words “mega events”, Hong Kong was producing world class...

Hans Ebert
Dec 12, 20244 min read


The HKIR I wanted to see, but got distracted and confused.
I am not a horse racing writer. I have been in advertising and marketing and the global music industry in senior executive positions....

Hans Ebert
Dec 9, 20243 min read


HORSE RACING AND ITS DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Speaking this week to an interviewer at Shatin in Hong Kong, Trainer Ciaran Maher compared HKIR week to the Olympics- the camaraderie,...

Hans Ebert
Dec 7, 20243 min read


HONG KONG: OUT WITH THE OLD, AND HERE’S HOPING THE NEW CAN DELIVER.
https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3289425/hong-kongs-john-lee-sacks-tourism-and-transport-ministers-surprise-move What was surprising...

Hans Ebert
Dec 7, 20243 min read


THE HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL RACES: ONE GIANT STEP TO INTERNATIONALISE HONG KONG. AND HAS SOMETHING TO CHEER!
To those visiting Hong Kong for the first time to take in HKIR week, these might be a few days of a Big Day Out and punting, but it’s...

Hans Ebert
Dec 5, 20245 min read


TRAVELLING WITH THE HKIR ALONG RACING’S EVOLUTION ROAD
Referred to these days by some as Hong Kong, China, the city that’s going through many changes and creating its own new brand personality...

Hans Ebert
Dec 4, 20243 min read


RACHEL’S KINGDOM AND THE IMPORTANCE OF WEIBO IN HORSE RACING’S COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY..
Those in horse racing who look beyond the obvious have been looking at how the game can be marketed to different audiences- like those in...

Hans Ebert
Dec 3, 20241 min read


COOL HAND LUKE AND MARKSMANSHIP
His father David will always be associated with training the champion galloper Vengeance Of Rain, a very underrated Hong Kong equine hero...

Hans Ebert
Dec 2, 20243 min read


THE ENIGMA THAT IS WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES
Those of us who get to almost know the CEO of the Hong Kong Jockey Club find Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges to be very German, sometimes...

Hans Ebert
Dec 2, 20244 min read


Making those Feel Good moments last…
Very interesting how popular this is with people… Must be the emotional attachment I have been banging on about for years!!! Like an old...

Hans Ebert
Nov 28, 20242 min read


When you’ve lost your appetite for social media.
Some might not want to admit it, because there are those things that over the years become second nature, but we just might be seeing the...

Hans Ebert
Nov 28, 20242 min read


HKIR WEEK AND GOING WITH THE FLOW?
While still absorbing the 161 run fest in the first cricket Test match by 22 year old Yashasvi Jaiwasal, came news of the 13 year old...

Hans Ebert
Nov 27, 20245 min read


KING KOHLI AND THE SUNDANCE KID
It’s been some years since I choked up watching a sport. The last time might have been when Roger Federer gave a post match speech that...

Hans Ebert
Nov 26, 20242 min read


HKIR 2024: WHY IT MUST BE THE MUTHA OF THEM ALL
Though the usual suspects from the horse racing world will make their annual pilgrimage to Hong Kong and the International Races, one...

Hans Ebert
Nov 21, 20243 min read


THE EVOLUTION OF HORSE RACING IN HONG KONG
It’s almost impossible to describe horse racing in Hong Kong without experiencing what it is, first hand, and making the time to...

Hans Ebert
Nov 18, 20244 min read


SAVING HONG KONG’S MUSIC MOSH PIT FROM ITSELF!
When you see a group of people in Hong Kong eating caviar with steamed rice and soya and tomato sauce, and others staring into their...

Hans Ebert
Nov 13, 20246 min read
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