Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 7, 2022
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 7, 2022 at Sha Tin.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 7, 2022 at Sha Tin.
Of the 15 runners in Friday’s Wagga Wagga Gold Cup at the racecourse of the same name in Australia, two starters have experience over the track – the outsider Roman, and the intriguing longshot Spirit Ridge, who was second in the same race last year.
Two days after they finished first and second by a head in the $105,500 Brierly Chase at Warrnambool Racecourse in Australia, Vanguard and Britannicus are back in the longer and more lucrative Grand Annual Chase at the same venue on Thursday.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at Sha Tin.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at Sha Tin.
In New Zealand and Hong Kong, the 4-year-old gelding Money Catcher has been second or third in five stakes in 13 starts, all on turf. His career will shift in a slightly different direction when Money Catcher starts on dirt for the first time on the infield course at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
Coming into Wednesday’s $140,800 Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool Racecourse, Showmanship has an active six-race winning streak that began in May 2020 and includes his stakes debut in the Bendigo Bank Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse in September 2020. Showmanship has not raced since the Bendigo Bank Stakes, and will start for a new trainer in Danny O’Brien.
The jockey James Doyle never had won a Classic race before Saturday, while young trainer George Boughey hadn’t won one before Sunday, but when Cachet went wire to wire in the English 1,000 Guineas on Sunday at Newmarket it gave Doyle his second Classic and Boughey his first.
In his 50-race career in Australia, Bit of a Lad has won eight times, with his most lucrative win coming in the $105,500 Brierly Chase at Warrnambool Racecourse west of Melbourne in April 2019. The 2019 season was the last year Warrnambool had a full crowd at its popular three-day spring meeting. The audiences are back at Warrnambool this week from Tuesday through Thursday and so is the 8-year-old Bit of a Lad in the Briefly Chase at about 2 1/8 miles, now worth $123,600.
Bulsara will have a familiar cast of rivals when the Australian-bred 2-year-old makes his second start in less than two weeks in a handicap at 6 3/4 furlongs at Ipswich Racecourse near Brisbane, Australia on Monday.