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Warm Heart might be the best European female who winds up in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita in November, and she is having a quiet weekend training in Ireland, but Sunday's Prix de l'Opera often produces Filly and Mare Turf runners and is likely to do so again this year.
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It's strange calling an unbeaten French Derby winner an unknown quantity, but that might be an apt description of Ace Impact, who lines up Sunday at Longchamp Racecourse as the favorite to win the Group 1, $5.28 million Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, October 1, 2023, at Sha Tin.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, October 1, 2023 at Sha Tin.
From Newmarket to New York, it will be a day of high-level racing for the father-and-son co-training team of Simon and Ed Crisford. Team Crisford has sent Algiers to the Grade 1 Woodward on Saturday afternoon, while earlier in the day they start favored Vandeek in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes in England.
Just Fine must finish in the first three in the Group 1 Metropolitan Stakes at 1 1/2 miles at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, on Friday evening to enhance his chances to qualify for the country’s most famous race, the Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Nov. 7.
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Frankie Lor hopes to add the G3 National Day Cup Handicap (1000m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (1 October) to last weekend’s G3 Celebration Cup Handicap success when he saddles Adios and Rewarding Together in the HK$4.2 million sprint feature.
Shuwari is the solid early favorite to beat seven rivals and run her career mark to 3 for 3 in the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes on Friday at Newmarket Racecourse.
The Australian gelding Chop the Ice will have his first road trip when he starts in a sprint handicap at Moruya Racecourse on Thursday evening.
Two recent near-misses make Oakfield Prince the favorite to end a 21-race losing streak since June 2021 in a one-mile handicap at Wyong Racecourse on Wednesday evening, provided he can hold off a late threat from the upstart filly Moritz Girl.
