Modern Games ended his 2-year-old season by winning the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar and began his 3-year-old campaign by winning the Group 1 Poule d’Essai des Poulains, the French 2000 Guineas, on Sunday at Longhamp.
Australian jockey Rachael Murray has had her best results of the year in the last three weeks, winning with six of 36 mounts. Martian Queen has been part of that success, winning a minor handicap at a mile at Gunnison Racecourse on May 2. Murray, 32, is back aboard Martian Queen in a one-mile handicap Monday at Tamworth Racecourse.
Bigger, stronger, faster – that was how Baaeed looked winning his 4-year-old debut Saturday in the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes at Newbury Racecourse in England.
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.
