top of page
Search


DOES HORSE RACING HAVE THE DRIVE TO SURVIVE?
It’s a business and not exactly where one giveth and the other taketh away though it can be. It’s also where one side can win and the...

Hans Ebert
Jan 65 min read


MUSIC MADE IN HONG KONG THAT IS NOT YOUR USUAL CHOW FAN
What happened on Saturday afternoon while watching India’s Rishabh Pant’s unorthodox but helluva entertaining batting display in the...

Hans Ebert
Jan 54 min read


WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, FOLLOW YOUR HEART STEPS…
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine mentioned being on something called Tinder, and was somewhat aghast that I wasn’t up enough on...

Hans Ebert
Jan 24 min read


ALL HAIL CRICKET, AND PROBABLY THE GREATEST TEST MATCH EVER!
Some in horse racing talk about “sports entertainment”, and the importance on “emotional attachment”, but it’s almost always the blahs...

Hans Ebert
Jan 13 min read


ZAC PURTON AND THAT RINGING SENSATION!
If there was any doubt that Zac Purton was in a mighty big hurry to break the record for the most number of winners ridden by a jockey in...

Hans Ebert
Jan 13 min read


Why “A Complete Unknown” Should Matter.
Making me pretty much put my life on Hold and think back to how I arrived at this point in time, has been the almost nonstop news feeds...

Hans Ebert
Dec 31, 20247 min read


WHY WINFRIED ENGELBRECHT-BRESGES NEEDS HIS OWN WORLD POOL OF TALENT
To many, it will be difficult to separate him from the world of horse racing. He lives and breathes it and often choreographs the next...

Hans Ebert
Dec 26, 20245 min read


“HOW DO YOU FEEEEEEEL?”
It’s like no other recording that I know of. It inspires you, fakes you out, makes many around you seem stiff and boring, and takes you...

Hans Ebert
Dec 24, 20243 min read


RACINGBITCH: THE STINKY ISSUE
SIZE MATTERS By now, those who follow horse racing religiously and are kinda like Jesus’s followers, but without that party pooper Judas...

Racing B!tch
Dec 23, 20243 min read


COULD SOCIAL MEDIA BE STRUGGLING TO BE RELEVANT?
Remember MySpace? If you do, it might age you, but time changes everything and everyone and is something that defines who you are and the...

Hans Ebert
Dec 23, 20244 min read


THE ART OF REMAINING A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
“Don’t follow leaders and watch your parking meters”, warned Bob Dylan on “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. Some people are intuitive and...

Hans Ebert
Dec 19, 20243 min read


The Magic Bus
The older you get, tastes change. You’re now attracted to Ingrid Bergman or Meg Ryan, maybe Diane Lane and not Jayne Mansfield though...

Hans Ebert
Dec 18, 20241 min read


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
bottom of page