And now for some…fist pumping in the Twilight Zone
By Hans Ebert Visit: www.fasttrack.hk Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and at Shatin on Sunday, there was smoke billowing towards the...
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Feb 14, 20204 min read
E.B. AND HORSE RACING: FIGHTING TO BRING BACK HONG KONG’S CAN DO SPIRIT
By Hans Ebert Visit: www.fasttrack.hk If someone with an interest in Hong Kong horse racing and thinking things couldn’t get much worse...
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Feb 12, 20204 min read
CRUZ-ING AND THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF RACING
By Hans Ebert These days, he’s travelling below the radar, not that he wants to, or even thinks about it, but everything that could have...
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Feb 9, 20206 min read
WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM WHAT RACING IN HONG KONG IS GOING THROUGH
By Hans Ebert He’s used this somewhat downtime to make an addition to his bag of tricks- throwing his whip into the waiting hands of the...
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Jan 27, 20203 min read
THE RACES AT SHA TIN TODAY: DEFINITELY DIFFERENT
By Hans Ebert Zac Purton, Hong Kong racing’s high priest of everything, has been quoted as saying that riding at the races at Shatin this...
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Jan 23, 20203 min read
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE ONGOING VINCENT HO SHOW…
By Hans Ebert It might not have been a race where one expected to see The Clash Of The Titans- it was a Class 5 race with riders...
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Jan 20, 20204 min read
STEWARDS CUP DAY AND FINDING THOSE FEEL GOOD MOMENTS…
By Hans Ebert Of course, the two big stories at Sha Tin on Sunday had to do with who won the Stewards Cup and the Centenary Sprint Cup,...
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Jan 15, 20204 min read
THE HAPPY WEDNESDAY WAH WAH ROUNDUP
We don’t know quite what to expect on this Happy Wednesday night as “Honey Badger” is in da house, or at least expected to be on course....
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Jan 11, 20205 min read
Coming up: A Whyte Size Duel
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com To their credit, they have been professional enough not to air any dirty laundry...
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Dec 27, 20193 min read
GRANT VAN NIEKERK AND THAT X FACTOR
After watching him ride the last winner of the card on the last Happy Wednesday of 2019, one couldn’t help wondering if we hadn’t seen a...
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Dec 22, 20193 min read
WHYTE LIGHTNING STRIKES (AGAIN)
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com He travels in his own universe. Always has. In his time in Hong Kong, he’s seen...
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Dec 19, 20194 min read
THE KARISMATIC ONE KEEPS FLYING HIGHER
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Despite all the talk about the domination of the “duopoly” comprising the world...
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Dec 10, 20192 min read
LOOKING ABOVE AND BEYOND HKIR WEEK…
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com Sunday was a huge success in many different ways for the multi layered Hong Kong...
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Dec 8, 20192 min read
HKIR AND BEING ON INFORMATION OVERLOAD
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com There’s been plenty of “space” devoted to HKIR week in hotel lounges, bars, over...
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Dec 7, 20196 min read
GIVING HORSE RACING A (REAL) SENSE OF BELONGING
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com What the world has seen for almost six months- the peaceful protests against the...
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Dec 6, 20192 min read
KARIS TEETAN AND THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF WINNING
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com I’m so happy and proud for my friend Karis Teetan who won last night’s Hong Kong...
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Nov 9, 20193 min read
WITH AN (ALMOND) EYE TOWARDS HKIR WEEK
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com To say that the HKJC has much riding on such a global marquee value name as...
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Nov 3, 20193 min read
AT SHA TIN THIS AFTERNOON: MAY THE HORSE BE WITH YOU
Though good to see Damian Oliver win the Victoria Derby on Warning, and the colt Exceedance take out the Coolmore Stud Stakes for Team...
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Nov 3, 20191 min read
THE INSIDE TRACK
DUMB AND DUMBER Really? Thinking that with Silvestre de Sousa and Alexis Badel in Hong Kong for their short winter sojourns and rides...
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Nov 2, 20195 min read
IS HORSE RACING EVERYWHERE READY TO FACE SOME HOME TRUTHS?
By Hans Ebert @HansEbertMusic Visit: www.hans-ebert.com It should literally be a real Beauty of a race meeting at Sha Tin on Sunday...
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