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The mysterIous life and times of Robert and Suki Ho
By Hans Ebert While the casinos in Macau crash and burn with their share prices worth billions going up in flames, thoughts turn to...
Sep 19, 20212 min read
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Happy Wednesday Birthday Pressies galore at Happy Valley!
With three runners in the race, it wouldn’t take a genius to think that trainer David Ferraris was expecting big things from the opener...
Sep 16, 20213 min read
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Sunday, Bloody Sunday
By Hans Ebert When the “NO SIX UP WINNER” sign went up after the last race on Sunday at Shatin, it would be safe to say that not many...
Sep 15, 20212 min read
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Prebble, Shinn and getting stuffed in Hong Kong on a Sunday
By Hans Ebert When Brett Prebble left Hong Kong a couple of years ago, many thought that after everything he had accomplished, the...
Sep 12, 20214 min read
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Partnering Winners: Hmmmmm.
by Hans Ebert The tide might have turned, but the big question is in what way, especially as the new Hong Kong racing season hits its...
Sep 9, 20213 min read
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The Price of Hayes stock has gone up
by Hans Ebert While absorbing the Zac Attack’s proclamation this week of almost biblical proportions that “the tide has turned”- a...
Sep 8, 20214 min read
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Making Hayes while the sun and the Mauritian Magician shine
by Hans Ebert Most of the day happened according to script, especially the expected wins by Naboo Attack and Nervous Witness from the...
Sep 6, 20213 min read
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The Behemoth comeback of Brett Prebble
By Hans Ebert The last time I saw Brett Prebble was at the Steak House at the Inter Continental Hotel in Hong Kong. I was having dinner...
Aug 30, 20213 min read
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Charlie Watts and life lessons to be learned
by Hans Ebert It’s been around three days since we lost Charlie Watts. The tributes and stories are still pouring in with many of us...
Aug 29, 20213 min read
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Charlie Watts: The business side of being a drummer and a Stone.
By Hans Ebert Rock drummers have almost always been larger than life characters- unpredictable, volatile, off-kilter, unhinged and the...
Aug 28, 20213 min read
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Nicole Kidman, “Expats” and that old Hong Kong question of Face
By Hans Ebert By now, almost everything that’s needed to be known about the “Nicole Kidman Eyes Wide Shut Little White Lies Hong Kong...
Aug 21, 20213 min read
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And soon the wait will be over…
by Hans Ebert Like the rest of the world, Hong Kong isn’t immune from the other pandemic making its unwelcome presence felt- the one...
Aug 16, 20215 min read
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Racing and how depression doesn’t discriminate and is a different kind of “level playing field”
By Hans Ebert My parents came from a time when only “crazy people” had mental health problems. From what I know, in those days back in...
Aug 9, 20215 min read
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The Fast Track 2020-21 Hong Kong Racing Season Awards
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Award Winners: Douglas Whyte and Jerry Chau He arrived in Hong Kong by default when suddenly named the last...
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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And soooooo, until September…
By Hans Ebert Though there are Six Up and Triple Trio jackpots to win, some will be seeing who rides off with the coveted Tony Cruz Award...
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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A MEEK SHOUTOUT FOR THE RACES AT SHA TIN TODAY
RACE 1 Tornado Phantom (2) California Spangle (1) RACE 2 Sky Gem (9) Amazing Agility (4) Hay Run (2) Star Win (13- purely because...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
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Why Canto Pop needs a facelift
by Hans Ebert Maybe now that Hong Kong has reached a point in its history where no one knows where it’s heading and what its future might...
Jul 3, 20215 min read
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Joni Mitchell: Blue moves
by Hans Ebert Us outwardly strong men who want to be seen as being in control always get weak in the knees when especially in the...
Jul 1, 20213 min read
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Apple Daily no more…
by Hans Ebert The end was inevitable, but still, the decision by pro democracy newspaper Apple Daily to fast forward and stop publishing...
Jun 26, 20211 min read
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The Changing Of The Guard (and the cake in the Oisin)
by Hans Ebert The weather gods can never be controlled. They march to the beat of their own drum. And though there were some commoners’...
Jun 22, 20215 min read
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