Flashing Steel has shown a consistent style in handicap races in Australia in recent months. More often than not, the three-time winner is part of the pace. The tactic worked in a handicap for males at 7 3/4 furlongs at Canterbury Park in Sydney on May 24, and can be effective again in a race against open company at the same distance at Canterbury on Tuesday evening.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at Happy Valley.
He’s A Copy Boy will be tested against a slightly tougher field than his last few races when he starts in the minor Wingham Cup at a mile at Taree Racecourse on Monday.
A day after a son of the late stallion Deep Impact, Auguste Rodin, won the Derby in England, a horse named Ace Impact turned heads winning France’s Derby, the Prix du Jockey Club, on Sunday at Chantilly.
Overcoming an outside post in a field of 18, Songline won Sunday’s Grade 1 Yasuda Kinen for the second consecutive year at Tokyo Racecourse in Japan, the third horse to record two wins in Japan’s leading springtime race for milers.
For a maiden race winner, Miss Thatcher carries a lofty reputation in advance of her first start of 2023 in a six-furlong handicap at Goulburn Racecourse in Australia on Sunday evening.
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, June 4, 2023, at Sha Tin.
Emily Upjohn, who would have won the 2022 English Oaks with any luck, was a brilliant winner of the Group 1 Coronation Cup on Oaks Day 2023. And a little later Friday at Epsom, her jockey and co-trainers, Frankie Dettori and John and Thady Gosden, won the Oaks itself with Soul Sister.
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Sodashi, a visibly striking white Thoroughbred, will have no shortage of admirers, or support from deep-pocketed bettors, when she attempts to beat males for the first time in a Grade 1 in Sunday’s Yasuda Kinen at a mile at on turf at Tokyo Racecourse.
Sammiballerina won for the second time in her career in a handicap at about 6 1/2 furlongs at Muswellbrook Racecourse in Australia on April 10, showing her customary late run. After comprehensive losses in two high-profile handicaps at Rosehill Gardens and Scone in late April and mid-May, Sammiballerina is back at her home course of Muswellbrook for a handicap at 7 1/4 furlongs on Saturday evening.
