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Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selection and Analysis for Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selection and Analysis for Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at Happy Valley.
The Hong Kong Jockey ClubOct 07, 2024
Luke Middlebrook's Hong Kong Selection and Analysis for Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at Happy Valley.
No horse impressed Sunday at Longchamp more than Ramatuelle, a slight 3-year-old filly with a serious turn of foot.
Camille Pissarro and Vertical Blue were the unexpected winners of Group 1 races for juveniles on Sunday’s undercard of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.
After a Group 3 win in July and a victory in a Group 2 in August, the 3-year-old filly Friendly Soul won her third consecutive start, and first Group 1, in Sunday’s Prix de l’Opera for fillies and mares at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris.
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It is not like the England-based trainer Ralph Beckett has a horse for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe every year. Beckett runs a fine, successful stable regularly populated with high-level performers, but we’re not talking about Ballydoyle here. And so it must have felt to Beckett like he’d missed a golden chance to win his first Arc when Westover ran into the brilliant Ace Impact finishing second a year ago.
The fast-improving 3-year-old Tamfana won her first Group 1 race in Saturday’s $360,700 Sun Chariot Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile at Newmarket Racecourse in Britain, finishing two lengths in front of Inspiral, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita last November.
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Fallen Angel, coming off a game second in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown, may be favored in Sunday's Group 1 Prix de l'Opera for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris. The winner of the $441,400 Prix de l'Opera receives a fees-paid berth to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 2.
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Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp lacks not only star power but names that most casual North American observers of European flat racing would recognize. Friday morning, a pair of France-based 3-year-olds sat atop the betting markets set by English bookmakers, and the fact those two, Look de Vega and Sosie, were priced at 5-1 demonstrates how wide open Sunday's 1 1/2-mile contest appears.
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Karis Teetan hopes Adefill’s natural affinity with Sha Tin’s All Weather Track will prove decisive when Ricky Yiu’s gelding resumes in the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Nam Long Shan Handicap (1650m, dirt) on Sunday (6 October).
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Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, October 6, 2024, at Sha Tin.