Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 5, 2022
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at Happy Valley.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at Happy Valley.
A measure of class relief in late September nearly put the Australian gelding Brazen Impact in the winner’s circle for the first time since January.
The 7-year-old Kentucky-bred Gendarme won his first Grade 1 race in a 28-1 upset in Sunday’s $2.2 million Sprinters Stakes at Nayakama Racecourse in Japan for his sixth stakes win in a career that began in 2017.
Longshot Place du Carrousel ran down favored Nashwa to win the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera by three quarters of a length on Sunday at Longchamp Racecourse.
Alpinista, under a textbook ride from jockey Luke Morris, became the first 5-year-old mare in 65 years to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe when she saw off 3-year-old Vadeni to win the Arc by a half-length.
A winner of her last two starts, Left Reeling will be favored again when she starts in the longest race of her career in a handicap at 1 3/8 miles at Warwick Farm in Sydney on Sunday evening across American time zones.
Kyprios won his sixth race in a row and fourth straight Group 1 on Saturday at Longchamp, where he annihilated 11 rivals in the Prix du Cadran.
A win Sunday's Sprinters Stakes at Chukyo Racecourse would make Naran Huleg the sixth horse to sweep the two Grade 1 sprint races in Japan and the first to do so since Fine Needle in 2018.
Noname Lane has won 8 of 21 starts, with five of those wins at distances of 7 1/2 furlongs or a mile. The specialty makes Noname Lane an intriguing runner in the $127,900 Seymour Cup at a mile at Bendigo Racecourse on Saturday evening across American time zones.
Fresh now and ready for an intended trip to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Keeneland, Nashwa starts as the favorite Sunday in the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera, a 1 1/4-mile contest likely to be run over softer going than Nashwa has yet encountered.