In early July, the Australian filly Our City finished a fast-closing third in her first start against winners in a handicap at 1 5/16 miles. On Sunday evening, she starts in a highly competitive handicap at 1 1/4 miles at Bathurst Racecourse with a chance to show distance races can be the focus of her career.
Live In the Dream, a 40-1 shot, made all the running and won the Group 1, $630,000 Nunthorpe Stakes on Friday at York Racecourse in England.
The last five weeks have been a career-changing span for the Australian geldings Bullbarrow and Vincenzo, with both winning consecutive starts for the first time.
There is no shortage of Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old sprinters in Sydney, Australia this month, judging from the entries for two Group 3 stakes worth $160,525 at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse on Friday evening.
Many international races that are part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series produce winners that are 100-1 shots to even consider coming to America, but Warm Heart is an obvious candidate for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf after capturing the Group 1 Yorkshire Oaks on Thursday at York Racecourse in England.
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A 6-year-old mare, a 3-year-old colt, and a 2-year-old head the early betting for the Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes on Friday at York Racecourse in England.
The Yorkshire Oaks, which is open to older fillies and mares aged 3 and up, drew a field of 10, and half those horses were between 9-2 and 13-2 in antepost betting as of Wednesday. The race is part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series offering the winner automatic fees-paid entry into the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf plus travel expenses to Santa Anita.
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Mostadahf denied ace 3-year-old Paddington his fifth straight Group 1 while winning at the top level for the second straight time himself, as Frankie Dettori passed Lester Piggott to become the most prolific winning jockey in the history of the Group 1 International Stakes.
Chances are dwindling for the Australian gelding Battleton to gain a berth in the $1.9 million Big Dance Stakes at a mile at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Nov. 7 but he has another chance on Thursday evening in the Murwillumbah Cup at 7 3/4 furlongs at Murwillumbah Racecourse.
No deep thoughts are required to determine that Socrates, the 6-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding, is overdue for his fifth career win in Australia. Beaten a head in a one-mile handicap at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Aug. 12, Socrates can end an 11-race losing streak in a one-mile handicap at Gosford Racecourse on Wednesday evening.
