The scratch of the group stakes winner Luncies has left Mount Popa as the 133-pound topweight in the $126,400 Port Macquarie Cup at Taree Racecourse in Australia on Thursday evening.
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Frankie Lo continued whirlwind career progress by posting his 400th Hong Kong win at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (8 October), reaching the milestone in only his seventh season with Heroic Master in the Class 3 Nam Fung Handicap (1000m).
Chances are the 5-year-old gelding Mr Papera will set the pace in a one-mile handicap at Gosford Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening. There is a good chance that will be a winning strategy against seven rivals.
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Leading Australian compatriot Zac Purton by just one win in the 2023/24 Hong Kong jockeys’ championship, Hugh Bowman hopes to successfully harness Caspar Fownes’ powerful start to the season when the pair combines at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (4 October).
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at Happy Valley.
Aditi did not just win a maiden race in her third career start at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Australia on Sept. 20, she won a super maiden race. For her fourth career start, Aditi has been entered in a handicap at 6 1/4 furlongs for fillies and mares on the infield Kensington course at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Analysis and Selections for Wednesday, October 5, 2023 at Happy Valley.
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Francis Lui accelerated a blistering start to the season with a Sha Tin treble crowned by Stoltz’s courageous victory in the HK$4.2 million G3 National Day Cup Handicap (1000m) to extend his lead at the top of the Hong Kong trainers’ championship on Sunday (1 October).
The 4-year-old filly Mama Cocha won for the second time in her last three starts, and in her debut in a Grade 1, in Sunday’s $2.2 million Sprinters Stakes at six furlongs at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan.
Blue Rose Cen rebounded from two losses Sunday at Longchamp to win the Prix de l’Opera by a neck over Jackie Oh, the 3-year-old filly’s fourth Group 1 success and third this year.
