Vince Gabbert, who has served in a variety of top management positions at Keeneland for the past 14 years, has resigned from the racing and sales company to focus on the professional soccer team that he has helped launch in Lexington, according to Keeneland.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at Happy Valley.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at Happy Valley.
Lucky Sweynesse will try for his fifth win on the 2021-22 Hong Kong racing season in the featured ninth race Wednesday at Happy Valley Racecourse.
The promising colt Tidal Creek, winner of two races in February, and the veteran mare Sprout Wings, who won for the third time in her career May 25, meet for the first time in a handicap at 1 3/16 miles at Canterbury Park in Australia on Wednesday.
Nashwa, who looked for all the world like a hold-up horse best suited to swooping late with one big run, won the Group 1 Prix de Diane on Sunday at Chantilly with a 180-degree shift in tactics.
In 2021, stablemates Creative Force and Naval Crown finished first and second in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes for 3-year-olds at Royal Ascot, one of the lesser stakes of the famous British racing week. A year later, in a more prestigious race, the order of finish was reversed when Naval Crown edged Creative Force for a narrow win in Saturday’s Group 1 Platinum Jubilee Stakes on the fifth and final day of the Royal Ascot meeting.
I Want One, the Australian 3-year-old gelding, won three of his preceding four starts prior to finishing a quiet fifth of 12 in a handicap for 3- and 4-year-olds at Canterbury Racecourse in Sydney on February. The loss led to a three-month rest for I Want One that ends on Monday with a start in a handicap at 6 3/4 furlongs at Newcastle Racecourse, north of Sydney
Nashwa was not quite good enough for the Oaks at Epsom on June 3 but might well be good enough for the Oaks at Chantilly on Sunday.
Turin Redsun has gone winless in seven starts during this, his first Hong Kong racing season, but the number that might matter more Sunday at Sha Tin is 113. That’s the weight Turin Redsun carries in the Group 3 Premier Plate Handicap over 1,800 meters, an impost 20 pounds lighter than top-rated Ka Ying Star and 19 fewer than key contender Tourbillon Diamond.
