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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


WHERE DID ALL THE GREAT ADVERTISING GO?
It was 1983 and British Airways had launched their groundbreaking “Manhattan” commercial. Suddenly, all us young creatives in advertising...

Hans Ebert
Nov 8, 20244 min read


LIFE JOURNEYS OF A DIFFERENT KIND
It’s been a strange and almost surreal week. I lost my personal historian and favourite storyteller in record producer, arranger and...

Hans Ebert
Nov 6, 20243 min read


THE LOST CITY OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE!
As Hong Kong kicks and bucks, stumbles and tries to reboot itself by its straps into somehow looking attractive to international...

Hans Ebert
Oct 31, 20243 min read


NEW TERM RISING: ZACOLOGY!
When Zac Purton was fairly recently quoted as saying that it’s not exactly a walk in the park for him to get on the “winningest” horses...

Hans Ebert
Oct 25, 20244 min read


START WITH ONE SMALL STEP FOR THE CHILDREN, HONG KONG
It was interesting to read that in his policy address, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive John KS Lee floated the idea of children being allowed...

Hans Ebert
Oct 23, 20244 min read


RACING’S PERCOLATING COFFEY MATE
Being pretty much born into the creative world because of a mother who was an artist and a father who eked out a living as a part time...

Hans Ebert
Oct 21, 20245 min read


ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES
It was finally giving into almost three weeks of soldiering on with a clogged left ear, and then suddenly being hit with an excruciating...

Hans Ebert
Oct 7, 20245 min read


Can Hong Kong’s “Can Do Spirit” return?
What many in Hong Kong continue to do is tiptoe around the elephant in the room as to why new international talent and tourists from the...

Hans Ebert
Jul 26, 20245 min read
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