Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, March 11, 2021
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, March 11, 2021 at Happy Valley.
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Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, March 11, 2021 at Happy Valley.
A trio of Class 3 handicaps round out a nine-race program on Wednesday at Happy Valley in Hong Kong, the most interesting of them race 8, a 1,200-meter sprint.
Archanna ran out of ground when she finished sixth of eight in a 6 1/2-furlong sprint at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, on Feb. 13. A 4-year-old filly, Archanna won two of her final three starts of 2020 in handicaps at 7 3/4 furlongs and 1 3/16 miles in September and October. Archanna is entered in a handicap at 7 3/4 furlongs on the infield Kensington course at Randwick on Wednesday, a distance that should be a better fit than her comeback race.
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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.