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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at Happy Valley.
The Hong Kong Jockey ClubMar 09, 2026
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, March 11, 2026, at Happy Valley.
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Andrea Atzeni’s surge up the Hong Kong jockeys’ championship gained further impetus at Sha Tin on Sunday (8 March) when the Italian produced a career-best quartet in Hong Kong, while Fast Network claimed the day’s feature to underline Ka Ying Rising’s supreme quality.
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Forced Entry concluded an outstanding weekend at Santa Anita for trainer Bob Baffert and jockey Juan Hernandez with a sharp win in her stakes debut in Sunday’s Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.
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Counterbalance made the successful move from recent maiden-race winner to stakes winner in Sunday’s $98,000 China Doll Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on turf at Santa Anita.
The famous four-day Cheltenham festival for hurdlers and steeplechasers begins in western England on Tuesday with familiar names prominent in the day’s leading race, the Grade 1 Champion Hurdle.
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Now that The Puma has confirmed his connections’ belief that he is a Kentucky Derby horse, they will spend the coming week or so figuring out the best route to get him to the May 2 Run for the Roses.
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Potente’s game win in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita has made the undefeated colt a leading contender in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 4, should trainer Bob Baffert select that race.
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The Kentucky stallion division of Shadwell Farm, which has made major cuts to its U.S. landholdings in the years following the death of its founder, is now for sale.
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Virginia-bred millionaire Gigante is the winner of eight stakes in a career that began in 2022, highlighted, fittingly, by a victory in the Grade 2 Secretariat Stakes in 2023 – a race named for Virginia’s most famous son - at its only live Thoroughbred venue, Colonial Downs.
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Joe Shiesty continues to enjoy a stellar winter at Turfway Park, posting his second straight sprint stakes victory with an emphatic 6 1/4-length romp in the $125,000 Big Daddy Stakes on Saturday night in a win that sets him up well for spring on the Kentucky circuit.