Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 8, 2021
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 8, 2021 at Sha Tin.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Saturday, May 8, 2021 at Sha Tin.
Yonkers finished fourth in the Mornington Cup at 1 1/2 miles at Mornington Racecourse on March 20. He is back at 1 1/4 miles for Friday’s $154,860 Wagga Wagga Gold Cup at Wagga Wagga Racecourse where he figures to be favored in a field of 16.
As wacky as it may seem, a 48-hour turnaround between starts is not uncommon for Australian steeplechasers. Bit of a Lad was second in Tuesday’s Brierly Chase at 2 1/8 miles at Warrnambool Racecourse, west of Melbourne, in his first start since July. Thursday, Bit of a Lad is rated among the top runners in the $296,815 Grand Annual Chase at 3 7/16 miles at Warrnambool.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at Happy Valley.
Guy Dragon has spent most of his 2020-2021 Hong Kong season racing at Sha Tin but has done all his winning at Happy Valley. With four Sha Tin turf starts and one on the dirt track there, Guy Dragon has compiled a 5-0-1-1 record this season. At Happy Valley, where he starts Wednesday night in the featured ninth race, a 1,200-meter Class 2 handicap for horses rated 100-80, he has gone 2 for 2.
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.