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.
Golden Sixty is within touching distance of status as the world’s premier miler based on the 2020 LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings (WBRR), released by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) on Tuesday, 26 January, as nine of Hong Kong’s elite races featured in the World’s Top 100 G1 Races last year.
Tony Cruz will aim to add further lustre to his extraordinary BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) record after Delightful Laos emerged as a potential classic contender with victory in the Class 2 Chater Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday (27 January).
After shockingly easy wins in her first two races this past July and August, Stunning Beauty returns to action Thursday at Meydan in the Group 2, $163,000 Cape Verdi Stakes.
Kozluca was a well-regarded first-time starter when the Australian-bred gelding closed from fifth in a field of 12 to win a seven-furlong maiden race at Eagle Farm Racecourse on Jan. 14.
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at Happy Valley.
