Successful comebacks have been a frequent occurrence in the career of Great Again, an 8-year-old Australian-bred gelding who starts in Wednesday’s $116,445 Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool Racecourse west of Melbourne.
The 4-year-old Chilean colt Succeso and 4-year-old Argentine filly Blue Stripe won Group 1 races in South America over the weekend to earn automatic berths to Breeders’ Cup races at Del Mar in November.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at Happy Valley.
The 3-year-old gelding Wolf Moon is most comfortable when allowed to rumble along on the lead on Australian racetracks. On Monday, Wolf Moon will start in the longest race of his career in a handicap at about 1 1/16 miles at Ipswich Racecourse, near Brisbane.
Jim Bolger sent out his first English 2000 Guineas winner in 2013, Dawn Approach, and on Saturday he took down his second Guineas when Poetic Flare won a desperate photo over Godolphin’s Master of the Seas.
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, May 2, 2021 at Sha Tin.
Excelleration and Irish Butterfly are the first two choices in a seven-furlong handicap at Bendigo Racecourse in Australia on Sunday following widely divergent results in recent starts at Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne.
The $2.66 million Tenno Sho is run at two miles, favorable conditions for Deep Bond, who won the Grade 2 Hanshin Daishoten at 1 7/8 miles in his second start of 2021 on March 21. The Tenno Sho is typically run at Kyoto, but that track is undergoing renovation this spring, leading to a venue change to Hanshin Racecourse.
There were no derby wins earlier in the career of Russian Emperor, the Irish-bred colt who starts in Sunday’s Group 3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup at 1 1/2 miles at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong. It was not because of a lack of trying by his trainers at the time.
Santa Barbara, off a mere maiden win last September, was the strong favorite Friday in early betting for Sunday's English 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.
