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Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, September 28, 2024
Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, September 28, 2024 at Sha Tin.
The Hong Kong Jockey ClubSep 27, 2024
Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, September 28, 2024 at Sha Tin.
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Zac Purton believes racing manners will be crucial to Bottomuptogether’s prospects in the Class 3 Yan Chai Trophy Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin tomorrow (Saturday, 28 September) when the unbeaten gelding bids to advance Four-Year-Old Classic Series credentials with a fourth successive win.
One might think, having seen his impressive victory in the Group 1 Prix Morny on Aug. 18, that Whistlejacket, a beast of a colt, rates as the best 2-year-old sprinter in Europe – but for the fact that the filly Babouche had handed him a 1 1/2-length defeat just eight days earlier in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
Broadsiding has won four stakes in Australia since mid-April, while Traffic Warden has won two since early March. As a pair, they give Godolphin Racing and trainer James Cummings a deep team in Friday’s Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes for Southern Hemisphere 3-year-olds at seven furlongs at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Australia.
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Hong Kong-trained runners return to the G1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) in Japan for the first time since 2018 on Sunday (29 September), when Victor The Winner and Mugen bid to join Silent Witness (2005) and Ultra Fantasy (2010) on the illustrious honour roll.
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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selection and Analysis for Saturday, September 28, 2024 at Sha Tin.
From one big-ticket race to another, I Wish I Win may have a lucrative schedule in coming weeks in Australia. I Wish I Win is part of a field of 13 in Friday’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne, a six-furlong race with a purse of $1.37 million. The race is a prep for the $13.7 million Everest Stakes at six furlongs at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Oct. 19.
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Caspar Fownes and Hugh Bowman continued a flourishing partnership at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (25 September), dominating with a treble to maintain the duo’s stunning winning strike rate.
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William Barows, a Grade 2 stakes winner on dirt in Japan earlier this year, proved too tough to catch in Wednesday’s $470,132 Nippon TV Hai Stakes at Funabashi Racecourse in Tokyo, finishing a length in front of Breeders’ Cup Classic hopeful Ushba Tesoro.
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Gearing up for his second attempt at securing Group 1 glory in Japan, Victor The Winner got a first feel for Nakayama’s turf course on Wednesday morning (25 September) with jockey Joao Moreira in the plate for trainer Danny Shum.