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THE ADRENALINE BAND’S HOT HITS FOR HAPPY WEDNESDAY TONIGHT
The band’s tips last Happy Wednesday were pretty good for six newbies to horse racing. Plus their best choice for the night- what else,...
Feb 20, 20191 min read


THE ADRENALINE BAND’S HITS FOR HAPPY WEDNESDAY TONIGHT
There are vocalists Jennifer Palor, Kel, singer-guitarist Jay. Adriel (keys), Kerwin (bass), and Toby (drums). The best musicians in Hong...
Feb 13, 20191 min read


SHATIN, CROISSANTS AND WHYTE MAGIC
With this being his last day as a jockey, one can be pretty sure that almost every Douglas Whyte ride will start below the odds. And...
Feb 10, 20193 min read


DOUGLAS WHYTE: LEGEND. INSPIRATION.
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Maybe it’s what Douglas Whyte didn’t see and what some of us kept in check that...
Jan 31, 20194 min read


HONG KONG RACING: THE GOOD, THE WEIRD AND THE GOOFY
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Though the last couple of meetings were a bit like Superman being struck down by kryptonite, at least...
Jan 1, 20193 min read


TIME TO CHANGE FREQUENCIES, HKJC. PLEASE.
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It was one of those rare- and often, Old Mother Hubbard’s bare cupboard- an all weather race meeting-...
Dec 20, 20183 min read


HONG KONG RACING: KEEPING THE HONG KONG DREAM ALIVE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Some people just can’t help being LOUD. And at the Champagne Bar of the Grand Hyatt, it was where...
Dec 10, 20183 min read


SO MUCH “MAIL”, SO MANY QUESTIONS: THE WORLD TURF CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SHA TIN
RACE 1 Worth a Quartet bet taking 2 and 4 as double bankers with a few legs for value. Of course Picken (9) with Moreira aboard must be...
Dec 9, 20182 min read


HAPPY WEDNESDAY: WHAT A STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN GETTING HERE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It used to be only about the Beer Garden. It was actually a friend in horse racing from Melbourne who...
Dec 3, 20186 min read


THE HKJC COMES UP WITH A BEAUTY…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Rightly or wrongly, the word “malaise” was used by me recently to describe the state of horse racing....
Nov 19, 20187 min read


Joao Moreira is returning to Hong Kong: Anyone care? Really?
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Remember that old saying about striking while the iron’s hot? So, for about a week, there were the...
Nov 10, 20181 min read


THAT BEAUTY OF A RIDE BY DOUGLAS WHYTE (AND ABOUT WINNING OVER NEW FANS)
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com “You missed the best ride I have seen by a jockey.” It was a message sent by someone relatively new...
Nov 8, 20182 min read


MAKING A SONG AND DANCE ABOUT WINNER 1800 IN HONG KONG FOR DOUGLAS WHYTE
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Douglas Whyte rode his 1800th winner in Hong Kong on Sunday. The name of the horse: Good Omen. The...
Oct 29, 20181 min read


THE HKJC AND ITS OWN PROJECT: RUNWAY
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Too often they get lost in the shuffle. Lost in the column inches and tweets and talk and innuendos...
Oct 22, 20184 min read


JOAO MOREIRA AND HOW FAMILY COMES FIRST. NOT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. REALLY.
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com True. It’s a little off kilter. A tad random. Joanna Lumley hosting a TV Special on 20 Years Of Black...
Oct 18, 20183 min read


WILL JOAO JOAO GET BACK TO HONG KONG (AND JOHN SIZE)?
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Though one Joe- jockey Kanuchiro “Joe” Fujii, below, who racing fans in Australia, Korea and...
Oct 15, 20185 min read


HORSE RACING AND THE UPHILL TASK OF WINNING OVER THOSE “YOUNGER PEOPLE”
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Those with zero knowledge about advertising and marketing and not knowing the difference between...
Oct 14, 20187 min read


JENNIFER PALOR AND THAT ADRENALINE RUSH
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com One can’t categorise Jennifer Palor. She sings songs. All types of songs. But what makes her special...
Oct 11, 20182 min read


WHATEVER…
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com Now this is more like it- a ten race meeting at Shatin where some of Hong Kong’s better gallopers are...
Oct 1, 20185 min read


WHY HONG KONG NEEDS A HAPPY WEDNESDAY
By Hans Ebert Visit Hans-Ebert.com It’s always good to prove the sceptics wrong. It happened in a small way in Hong Kong on Wednesday....
Sep 7, 20183 min read
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