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Six months ago, Vodka Vodka was a maiden nearing a comeback after a yearlong layoff. On Saturday at Santa Anita, Vodka Vodka became a stakes winner in the $175,000 Unusual Heat Turf Classic and a candidate for the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 7.
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With the Angels, who has lost her last two starts after winning her first five, looks to get back to the winner's circle Thursday in a second-level allowance/optional $75,000 that serves as the feature and final race on Thursday's eight-race Aqueduct program.
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While there figures to be some drama in categories such as older dirt male, jockey, and perhaps trainer, Thursday's Eclipse Awards ceremony in South Florida is expected to be another big night for Godolphin, the global racing and breeding operation of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruling leader of Dubai.
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The speedy and well-traveled Uncashed makes a return visit to Tampa Bay Downs on Wednesday, where the 6-year-old gelding seeks his 13th career victory in a multi-conditioned allowance/optional $100,000 claimer over six furlongs that serves as the feature on a nine-race card.
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Todd Pletcher couldn’t have hoped for more than he got with the two Saturday runners he shipped to Fair Grounds from his winter base at Palm Beach Downs. The 3-year-old Jackson Hole, coming off a one-turn-mile debut win, easily captured a first-level route allowance, and 4-year-old Accelerize, making his fourth career start and stakes debut, led wire to wire in the Grade 3 Louisiana, where he held off odds-on favorite Just a Touch.
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The 3-year-old filly Taken by the Wind has started her career with three wins, the most recent Saturday in the Silverbulletday Stakes. Her trainer, Kenny McPeek, sees Taken by the Wind as a Kentucky Oaks horse, and McPeek believes she needs only one more race before the Oaks.
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Ricky Yiu has declared it’s all systems go for Voyage Bubble ahead of his six-time Group 1 winner’s Triple Crown defence, which begins in Sunday’s (25 January) HK$13 million G1 Stewards’ Cup (1600m) at Sha Tin, when he clashes with Romantic Warrior.
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In the fifth instalment of The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Road to the Derby series, we profile a contender who has charged up the ratings this season – the Jimmy Ting-trained Little Paradise.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at Sha Tin.
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Six-time Group 1-winning sprinter Ka Ying Rising has been crowned Timeform’s Horse of the Year (2025). Trained by David Hayes, last season’s Hong Kong Horse of the Year (2024/25) also earned the accolade as Timeform’s Champion Sprinter (2025).
