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Hong Kong has some of the world’s best top-end talent right now. Golden Sixty, Romantic Warrior and Lucky Sweynesse continue to dominate their respective divisions, winning three out of the four star-studded Group 1s at Sunday’s (10 December) HK$118 million LONGINES Hong Kong International Races at Sha Tin.
Fresh from a win in a maiden race on Nov. 21, Fioprospero will race against a modest field of winners in a one-mile handicap at Kembla Grange Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening.
A Group 1 winner in Australia as recently as May, the 4-year-old filly Royal Merchant will face a significantly easier field in the Magic Millions 3- and 4-year-old Stakes at six furlongs at Wyong Racecourse on Tuesday evening.
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s Chief Executive Officer Mr Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges has praised the 2023 LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) as “one of the best days of racing” Hong Kong has hosted.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Analysis for Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at Happy Valley.
Are You Joking, scratched from a one-mile handicap last week, will have his debut against winners in a seven-furlong handicap at Tamworth Racecourse in Australia on Monday evening.
Ascoli Piceno remained unbeaten after three starts with a stakes-record performance in the Grade 1 Hanshin Juvenile Fillies at a mile on turf at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan on Sunday.
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Golden Sixty was the horse of the day but the Hong Kong Cup was the race of the day, local hero Romantic Warrior edging Luxembourg by a nose in the Group 1 fixture Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse.
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Reasonable critiques can be applied to Golden Sixty’s status as an historically great horse. He never has raced outside Hong Kong, nor has the level of his competition always been elite. But that Golden Sixty, to whatever extent, is great seems undeniable at this point. On Sunday at Sha Tin, he won the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile for the third time and did so with a breathtaking turn of foot and under difficult conditions.
The benefit of a recent prep race may help October Revolution overcome a hefty weight assignment in a five-furlong handicap at Tuncurry Racecourse in Australia on Sunday evening.
