Blake Shinn leaving and the twists and turns of the new Hong Kong taking shape...
This piece takes on different plot twists and turns like some Alfred Hitchcock or Twilight Zone movie script, but let’s start off with...
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Jun 29, 20224 min read
Whyte Magic and The Sunshine Kid
If there’s any doubt that like the city itself, Hong Kong racing is seeing a changing of the guard, this came screaming through when the...
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Jun 13, 20225 min read
The changing face of Hong Kong, and with it, Hong Kong racing.
If the eleven races at Shatin on Sunday looked like a benefit meeting for Hong Kong-born riding and training talent, it was timely, and...
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Apr 11, 20229 min read
Hong Kong: The time has come The Walrus said...
I left Hong Kong for Melbourne about two weeks ago as I felt my parents were asking for me and I needed to see and thank them for...
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Mar 24, 20223 min read
Moor or less...
It wasn’t something known by many, but known by enough, and now it’s official: Daniel Moor is calling time on Hong Kong racing after just...
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Mar 21, 20225 min read
Looking at horse racing- and life- in the post pandemic world...
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Feb 27, 20225 min read
Cryptic notes from the crib
Cryptic notes from the crib ...................................... Can horse racing hear new opportunities knocking? With everything and...
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Feb 7, 20225 min read
Horse racing and today's changing media landscape...
There might have been one of those rare- and also pretty empty- Sunday afternoon race meetings at Happy Valley in Hong Kong, but this was...
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Jan 1, 20227 min read
Cryptic notes from the crib
Cryptic notes from the crib ...................................... The Whyte Knight to the rescue...and brings up weightier issues... To...
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Dec 22, 20213 min read
Darth leaves the dark side of the moon
Sure, he’s moody. We all get cranky once in a while. Some get more cranky than others. Often one thinks he’s angry with the world. It’s...
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Dec 3, 20215 min read
Cryptic notes from the crib
Cryptic notes from the crib ...................................... Does horse racing even NEED good marketing? Having been in different...
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Nov 27, 20214 min read
Cryptic notes from the crib (November 2021)
Cryptic notes from the crib ...................................... Winners (and also rans) ...................................... Yoshito...
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Sep 19, 20214 min read
The Fast Tracker goes looking for value at Shatin
Though Sierra Sue won the race and huge congratulations to winning jockey Daniel Moor, below, on his first Group 1 race- and on his...
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Aug 9, 20215 min read
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...
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Jun 26, 20215 min read
Douglas Whyte: It always comes down to timing.
by Hans Ebert He never leaves anything to chance. Never has. It’s just the way he is. And if he pulls the wrong rein on anything to do...
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Jun 26, 20212 min read
TATTLETALES
There Are Headlines And Then There Are Headlines from the Department Of Cheese: “So butters up Croissant At Sha Tin”. Oui, mes amis, the...
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Jun 22, 20215 min read
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’...
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Jun 14, 20211 min read
Welcome to the wellness of Jockeyoga
About to sweep the world by stretching wellness to new levels of agility is Jockeyoga. Yes, Jockeyoga. Below are some warmup exercises...
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Jun 13, 20214 min read
Shatin, Willo, Ayrton, Zaaki, serial natterers and the sad end of a Dancing Fighter…
The less said about the ride on Shakespeare at Sandown yesterday the better, but the good news was that $1.60 favourite Ayrton saluted as...
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Jun 6, 20213 min read
ADAYAR!!! THE QUADDIE!!! And now for the Triple Trio at Shatin…
Let’s not mention Adayar who, with “reject” Adam Kirby on his back, blew away not only all the runners in the Epsom Derby last night, but...
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