Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, May 15, 2022
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, May 15, 2022 at Sha Tin.
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Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, May 15, 2022 at Sha Tin.
Running Glory is one of the smaller horses in Hong Kong but that doesn’t stop him from winning prolifically. Running Glory began this Hong Kong season, and his career, finishing 11th in a Class 4 handicap on Nov. 21. He since has won four of six starts while his Hong Kong rating has risen from 52 to 81, and Running Glory tries the Class 2 handicap level for the first time in the featured third race on Sunday at Sha Tin.
Both Daring Tact and Sodashi, former 3-year-old filly champions in Japan, are winless in their last three starts in advance of a first-ever meeting in Sunday’s Grade 1 Victoria Mile for fillies and mares at Tokyo Racecourse.
Last July, Lunatic Fringe won a minor handicap at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Casterton Racecourse in Australia. The race may not have merited significant attention at the time, but the experience will well serve Lunatic Fringe when the 5-year-old New Zealand-bred mare starts in Sunday’s Casterton Cup at 1 1/4 miles.
Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby had a one-two finish in the English 2000 Guineas with Coroebus and Native Trail, and on Sunday at Longchamp they run the favorite, Modern Games, in France's iteration of the Guineas, the Group 1 Poules d'Essai des Poulains.
Mazu’s status among Australia’s sprinters will be better known after his debut against older horses in Saturday’s Group 1 Doomben 10,000 at six furlongs at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane.
Baaeed, surely one of the top two turf milers in the world, makes his 2022 debut Saturday at Newbury Racecourse in England as the odds-on favorite in the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, May 15, 2022 at Sha Tin.
Rustic Steel improved his record to 6 for 12 by winning the $347,700 The Coast Stakes, a handicap for Southern Hemisphere 3- and 4-year-olds at Gosford Park in Australia last Saturday. On Friday, less than a week later, Rustic Steel is expected to be a slight favorite to win his group stakes debut in the Group 3 Scone Cup at a mile at Scone Racecourse.
One-mile races on heavy turf in Australia are defining the season of the 3-year-old gelding Duke of Gordon. Duke of Gordon won a maiden race on April 14 and his debut against winners on April 28 in races with those conditions at Wyong Racecourse. The victories give Duke of Gordon a legitimate claim as the favorite in another one-mile handicap in similar conditions at Wyong on Thursday.