Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at Happy Valley.
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Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at Happy Valley.
Who can tell when the light bulb might go on for a racehorse? My Ecstatic won once in his first 18 Hong Kong starts but comes into the featured ninth race Wednesday a winner three times in his last four starts.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at Happy Valley.
Star on Fire and Osman were maiden-race winners in their last starts at minor tracks in Australia in recent weeks, and they face winners for the first time in a handicap at 6 1/4 furlongs at Gunnedah Racecourse on Tuesday.
Aspen Colorado is a 4-year-old German-bred gelding racing in Australia with an easy name to remember but a recent race record of near misses. The losing streak can end in a one-mile handicap on Monday at Donald Racecourse in a small town of the same name northwest of Melbourne.
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, July 10, 2022 at Sha Tin.
Frankie Lor has all but wrapped up the 2021-22 Hong Kong racing season training title, leading John Size 90-84 going into the Sunday card at Sha Tin, third-to-last program of the season. And in the featured Chow Silver Plate Handicap, the last of 10 races Sunday, Lor can play a roll in the race for leading jockey, sending out the exciting 3-year-old Keefy with Joao Moreira aboard.
A return to one mile could mean a return to winning for 2021 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf hero Modern Games. Sunday, England-based trainer Charlie Appleby sends Modern Games back to France – and back to one mile – in the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat.
The South Grafton Cup at Grafton Racecourse in Australia on Sunday is a one-mile race with a modest purse of $54,800. For the first two finishers, the race could lead to a richer racing opportunity later this year.
Perfect Power, already a three-time winner of Group 1 sprints, will be favored to add another such race to his resume in the July Cup on Saturday at Newmarket Racecourse in England.