Facing a largely inconsistent field, the 4-year-old filly Deep Shimmer has a leading chance to win for the third time in her last four starts in a five-furlong handicap at Wagga Wagga Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening.
A vital class drop may propel the Australian filly Infatuation to a second career win in a six-furlong handicap at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney on Tuesday evening.
After a narrow loss at 12-1 in her late-July debut, the filly Scholl Deep dominated a field of maidens at Gunnedah Racecourse in Australia in mid-August, pulling clear to win by nearly four lengths as an odds-on favorite. She will be favored to record another win in her first start against winners in a seven-furlong handicap at Newcastle on Monday evening.
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.
