Celestial Power in with a feather in Sha Tin Class 2 handicap
A pair of 4-year-olds look live in the second of two Class 2 handicaps, the co-features on Sunday’s racing program at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
Marcus HershMar 05, 2021
A pair of 4-year-olds look live in the second of two Class 2 handicaps, the co-features on Sunday’s racing program at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
Remarque will be a heavy favorite in Sunday’s Group 3 Black Opal Stakes for 2-year-olds at Canberra Racecourse in Australia, if he starts.
Gordon Elliott, one of Europe’s leading steeplechase trainers, was suspended 12 months and fined approximately $17,860 on Friday after a photo emerged on social media in late February of him sitting on a deceased horse in a paddock.
The Group 1 Australian Cup at Flemington Racecourse in March 2020 remains the career highlight of the millionaire Fifty Stars, a winner of 10 of 29 starts. Fifty Stars had a February campaign this year geared for a return appearance in Saturday’s $1.15 million Australian Cup at 1 1/4 miles.
Three times in the 24-year history of the Dubai World Cup has the race's winner exited a win in the Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3, and it's been a while. Dubai Millennium in 2000, Street Cry in 2002, and Electrocutionist in 2006 are the only horses to pull the double in the same year, and if there is a 2021 World Cup winner entered in this year's renewal of the race, he is hard to find.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, March 7, 2021 at Sha Tin.
Bottega will have his 2021 debut in Friday’s Group 3 Newmarket Handicap at seven furlongs at Newcastle Racecourse.
Mystic Guide, who launched his 4-year-old season in smashing fashion winning the Razorback Handicap on Saturday at Oaklawn, will make his next start March 27 in the $12 million Dubai World Cup if all goes according to plan.
Camp Rifle and Group Think dominated the betting when they were first and second by a neck in a one-mile handicap at Coffs Harbour Racecourse in Australia on Feb. 13. The familiar rivals meet again on Thursday in a handicap at 7 1/2 furlongs at Port Macquarie Racecourse, and this time have a formidable foe in War Cat.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at Happy Valley.