Keats, Hunboshi, and King’s Charisma were all recent winners in Australia, and are the three leading choices in a field of 11 in the Ararat Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles on Saturday evening across American time zones at Ararat Racecourse in Australia.
A two-time Australian Horse of the Year and the leading colt for that prize this season will be heavy favorites to win two of three Group 1 races worth $1.88 million at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday evening across American time zones.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, November 6, 2022 at Sha Tin.
This season has not gone well for Juventus. The soccer team of that name is in seventh place in the 20-team Italian Serie A league, and the Australia-bred gelding Juventus is winless in 10 starts since December. Juventus, the racehorse, has a chance to end that losing streak in the Kempsey Cup on Thursday.
She’s Extreme has lost her last four starts. Zenzella has won her last two. Those two are expected to be the first two choices in the Group 1 Kennedy Oaks at 1 9/16 miles at Flemington on Wednesday.
Gold Trip accomplished something in Tuesday’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup that he failed to do in his first five starts in Australia. He finally won.
Before he travels to Kentucky for the Breeders’ Cup this weekend, world-famous jockey Frankie Dettori has a new assignment in Australia. Dettori has been booked to ride race favorite Hosier in The Big Dance Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Monday evening across American time zones.
With the benefit of a mid-October prep race, the 5-year-old mare Designs appears well positioned to win for the third time in her last five starts in the Kyneton Cup at Bendigo Racecourse in Australia on Tuesday evening across American time zones.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at Happy Valley.
After finishing second in two Grade 1 races in the spring – the Japanese 2000 Guineas and the Japanese Derby – Equinox won his debut against older horses in a bizarre running of Sunday’s Grade 1 autumn Tenno Sho at Tokyo Racecourse.
