Four days out from the much-anticipated return of Golden Sixty’s attempt to post a 12th consecutive triumph, the champion galloper’s trainer Francis Lui continued an excellent season with a Happy Valley treble.
An Irish trainer has been banned for six months after a horse he trained tested positive for a drug providing a “dangerous degree of sedation” during a race meet in October 2018, according to The Racing Post.
Wren’s Day is far removed from his surprise second-place finish at 24-1 in the Group 1 Prix Ganay at Longchamp in April 2018. These days, Wren’s Day is running in routine handicap races in Australia. Wren’s Day will start for the first time since July for a new ownership group and trainer Cody Morgan in a six-furlong handicap at Tamworth Racecourse on Thursday.
Loving a Boom might have been launching an explosive winning move on the night of Dec. 23 at Happy Valley, but a wall of horses smothered his homestretch charge. If Loving a Boom’s fuse remains lit, he and Christophe Soumillon might have enough to overcome a load of weight in the last of nine Happy Valley races on Wednesday.
Injury halted the Caspar Fownes-trained Snap Fit’s burgeoning career last season, but this Wednesday (20 January) the handler’s talented six-year-old returns from a 10-month break to contest the first section of the Class 3 Sheung Hei Handicap (1200m) at Happy Valley.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at Happy Valley.
Darvin and Dashing Tycoon flew through the stretch of a handicap at 1 5/16 miles at Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 6 to finish second and third behind race winner Tolemac. There was little separating the pair that day and appears to be little between them in advance of a handicap at 1 1/2 miles at Sandown on Wednesday.
The Dubai World Cup still is worth $12 million and still anchors a blockbuster card on the last Saturday in March, but that's about the only thing that's the same about the 2021 Dubai World Cup Carnival.
Frenchman Antoine Hamelin banished the frustrations of a recent barren streak to produce the first quintet of his career to steal the show at Sha Tin on Sunday (17 January) as Elusive State left Tony Millard contemplating a high-stakes Middle East tilt.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at Happy Valley.
