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IS HORSE RACING GETTING AHEAD OF ITSELF BY ALSO TRYING TO BE ENTERTAINMENT AND HOW DOES THIS WORK?
Some friends were, I think, teasing me on the weekend that by bringing “entertainment” to horse racing with the Happy Wednesday brand for the Hong Kong Jockey Club, I had created a herd mentality that was neither here nor there- “The Square Peg In A Round Hole Solution”. Of course, Happy Wednesday under me was before Covid struck and Hong Kong was still a happy place. Today is not yesterday, and I understood what my friends were saying during these post pandemic times, where

Hans Ebert
Oct 262 min read


Ride On…
THE BATTLE OF EVERMORE LUCK AWARD Trained by Mark Newnham, current head of the Trainer’s leaderboard in Hong Kong, a first starter ridden by the extremely tall, strong Jimmy Orman gaining increasing popularity in the city, drawn an outside barrier and absolutely smashed in the betting to start the race favourite, looked like waltzing in until suddenly something made him run out wide probably looking for the closest McDonald’s, and then surviving an enquiry and an objection fi

Hans Ebert
Oct 262 min read


NOW AND THEN, S*** HAPPENS.
It really has been a comedy of errors. Though some may see it possibly succeeding as a mockumentary in the style of a poppy version of Spinal Tap, or The Rutles, consider this: “The HKJC and X1X Entertainment Present Now United In Hong Kong, China”. Where once upon a Spice Girl, there were Posh, Baby, Ginger, Sporty and Scary Spice, when the same formula was repeated with SClub7, some of us actually knew there was a Rachel and Hannah in the group. In 2019, and from the same S

Hans Ebert
Oct 223 min read
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