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Recently arrived jockeys Andrea Atzeni and Keagan De Melo were officially unveiled by The Hong Kong Jockey Club at Sha Tin this morning (Tuesday, 5 September) ahead of the impending 2023/24 racing season which commences this Sunday (10 September).
In the last two years, Jack Duggan has had mixed results, going winless in 2021 before winning three times last year. Jack Duggan has yet to win in four starts in 2023, but his last two races suggest a victory is possible in a handicap at 1 1/4 miles at Hawkesbury Racecourse near Sydney on Wednesday evening.
Mountain Ghost was ambitiously raced in group-level stakes in Australia in April as a maiden. She finished second of 12 at 30-1 in the Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on April 1, but was 14th in a field of 15 in the Group 1 ATC Stakes at 1 1/2 miles a week later.
Sauterne won her first Group 1 as odds-on favorite Big Rock came up second-best for the third race in a row in Prix du Moulin de Longchamp on Sunday.
The filly Harlow Mist scored an 8-1 upset when she stormed through the stretch at Goulburn Racecourse in Australia on Aug. 14 to win her debut in a seven-furlong maiden race. On Monday evening at Scone Racecourse, Harlow Mist can prove that race was not a fluke when she starts against multiple winners in a one-mile allowance race.
Nature Strip, the two-time Australian Horse of the Year who won nine Group 1 races on two continents as well as the Everest Stakes in Australia in 2021, has been retired.
A low weight assignment and a return to a favored racetrack give Roussos a few advantages in the Moree Cup at Moree Racecourse in Australia on Saturday evening.
After winning four races in a row, the 3-year-old Big Rock found one better in the French Derby and then again in the Jacques Le Marois, but after finishing second in his first two Group 1 starts, he looks like the horse to beat Sunday at Longchamp in the Group 1 Prix du Moulin de Longchamp.
Nature Strip is 9, farther removed each day from his Horse of the Year seasons in Australia in 2019-2020 and 2021-2022.
There was little between Hosier and Kalapour when they finished first and third in the Group 3 Premier’s Cup at 1 1/4 miles at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 23.
