Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, January 31, 2021
Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, January 31, 2021 at Sha Tin
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Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, January 31, 2021 at Sha Tin
Zac Purton is hopeful Exultant can reprise a winning habit in the G3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January) despite concerns Tony Cruz’s staying flagbearer’s elite qualities are in decline.
Exultant on Sunday at Sha Tin will try for his third straight win in the Group 3 Centenary Vase Handicap.
There is a familiarity to the field for Sunday’s Bega Cup at Sapphire Coast Racecourse in Australia. The first four finishers of the Moruya Cup at Moruya Racecourse on Jan. 14, as well as the runners who were seventh and 12th, have drawn into the field of 16 for the Bega Cup. Roseirro, who was fifth at Moruya, is on the also-eligible list for Sunday’s race.
Althiqa closed strongly into a fast pace and easily won the Group 2, $163,000 Cape Verdi Stakes, featured race Thursday on the second program of the 2021 Dubai World Cup Carnival at Meydan.
Age-restricted races end for Ole Kirk when he starts in Saturday’s Group 2 Expressway Stakes against older horses at six furlongs at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Australia.
Revitalised by a brief spell, emerging talent Columbus County will throw down the gauntlet to Hong Kong’s premier stayers in the G3 Centenary Vase Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (31 January) as Caspar Fownes plots an ambitious path.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, January 31, 2021 at Sha Tin.
Huffington has compiled an attractive record of three wins in four starts racing at some of Australia’s smaller venues. Friday, Huffington will have her debut at a more prominent track – Flemington Racecourse, home of the Melbourne Cup – in a five-furlong handicap.
Charlatan is in. Tacitus is in. England-based 4-year-old Mishriff, winner of the 2020 French Derby, is in. But whether Pegasus World Cup winner Knicks Go is in or out of the $20 million Saudi Cup on Feb. 20 remains to be determined.