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THE HKJC GETS ALL GIDDY AND DARK AND VERY WEIRD!
It’s deep, yet shallow, sissy, yet masculine, childlike though chilling and giving off a Halloween and Chung Yeung vibe for Hong Kong racing with rather spooky horsey dance moves borrowed from Gangham style by some people in the scary looking empty setting of Happy Valley racecourse. Far better and more “Thriller” if it was filmed at midnight in the Happy Valley cemetery. Especially deep and probing are the thought provoking deluge of naughty “lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lahs

Hans Ebert
Nov 31 min read


DJANGO UNCHAINED
********************* We couldn’t help overhearing a very senior Biggie Small executive with the HKJC, and someone who really should know better, dismiss jockey Mark Zahra’s accomplishments by telling his dinner guest, how “he couldn’t ride a winner when in Hong Kong”. This rather telling remark was a couple of weeks before the double Melbourne Cup winning rider rode four consecutive winners at Flemington on Saturday’s Victoria Derby Day including two winners for the new God

Hans Ebert
Nov 34 min read


RIDE ON…
SCORING GOALS, PETE GOES GLOBAL… Whatever anyone might think of him, it’s darn difficult to ignore Peter V’Landys, especially because he appears to be travelling under the radar and as they say in Media Speak, is expanding his reach. There are those well into the Australian sporting arena who no longer see him as the “racing supremo” of Racing New South Wales. Yes, he’s still guiding the Everest juggernaut, but he’s also somewhat like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Was he actually on

Hans Ebert
Oct 273 min read
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