Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, April 23, 2023
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, April 23, 2023, at Sha Tin.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, April 23, 2023, at Sha Tin.
On a day of upsets in leading British races, the unheralded Mammas Girl won her stakes debut and first start of 2023 in Wednesday’s Group 3 Nell Gwyn Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse.
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With 400 meters left to race Sunday at Nakayama Racecourse in the Satsuki Sho, the Group 1 Japanese 2000 Guineas, Sol Oriens was 17th of 18 runners and more than 10 paths off the fence. A quarter-mile later, he had swooped past 16 rivals and won the $3.1 million Satsuki Sho by 1 1/4 lengths while going away.
After winning a handicap steeplechase at 3 1/8 miles at Cheltenham Racecourse in England for the second consecutive year last month, Corach Rambler won Saturday’s $1.24 million Grand National at 4 5/16 miles at Aintree Racecourse north of Liverpool in his first start in the famous steeplechase.
“Okiku hiraku” means “wide open” in Japanese, and the Group 1, $1.68 million Satsuki Sho on Sunday at Nakayama Racecourse looks okiku hiraku indeed
The $1.24 million Grand National had a new favorite on Friday afternoon, a day before the famous steeplechase is run at Aintree Racecourse north of Liverpool.
Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, April 15, 2023, at Sha Tin.
Unchallenged, the British gelding Constitution Hill was an easy winner of Thursday’s Grade 1 Aintree Hurdle at Aintree Racecourse north of Liverpool, extending his unbeaten record to seven races in his first start at 2 1/2 miles.
Finding the winner of the Grand National, the world's most famous horse race not run in Kentucky, requires creative handicapping, ample homework, and a hefty dose of good luck. field of 40 will assemble, without a starting gate, at 12:15 p.m. Eastern at Aintree Racecourse north of Liverpool on Saturday for a start always hectic and sometimes chaotic.