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MIKE SMITH AND NETFLIX AND THE HKJC ON THE SLOW BOAT TO CHINA
https://usasnews.com/posts/breaking-news-legendary-jockey-mike-smith-has-sent-the-entire-horse-racing-world-into-a-frenzy-afte-thanhtam/?utm_source=facebook Gawd knows there have been so many times when I have had to bite my tongue so hard to not burst out laughing listening to those who have no idea about the business model of the streaming service that’s Netflix thinking that that anything and everything produced, including horse racing, will be accepted. So very wrong, Ton

Hans Ebert
Jan 116 min read


WHERE’S THE MUSIC GONE, HONG KONG?
It really doesn’t take an Einstein to understand this, but during these days of “influencers” and influenzas and clodhoppers and KOLs and where so much of everything has been really really really dumbed down and me really really really being a music guy who has helped run the regional offices of Universal Music and EMI Music and worked with artists as diverse as Norah Jones and Gorillaz to Faye Wong and Jackie Cheung, and since the majority of the tourists to Hong Kong are to

Hans Ebert
Jan 43 min read


HAS THE HKJC BECOME TOO MUCH OF A ONE MAN BAND?
With a new byline covering the New Year’s Day race meeting at Shatin and writing about “a slow start to the day” before a “festive atmosphere ultimately drew almost 50,000 spectators including nearly 10,000 from the mainland”, it was hardly any surprise for Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Hong Kong Jockey Club CEO and official cheerleader to describe the day as “terrific”. Written by someone named Mike Chan, we particularly liked reading this little morsel: “Meanwhile, a re

Hans Ebert
Jan 35 min read
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