Golden Sixty, the top-rated horse in Hong Kong, brings an 11-race winning streak into the Group 1 Stewards Cup. The 1,600-meter race is run at level weights, Golden Sixty and jockey Vincent Ho have a fine draw – post 6 in just an eight-horse field – and anything less than an odds-on victory Sunday will come as a serious surprise.
Bandersnatch has had a steady presence in handicaps at major tracks in Australia in the last two months, finishing in the top three in his last three starts.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, January 24, 2021 at Sha Tin.
Since Charmmebaby was transferred to trainer Bob Milligan’s stable in Australia in early 2020, the New Zealand-bred mare has won 4 of 10 starts, including her most recent race in November. Charmmebaby has won at distances ranging from five furlongs to 7 1/2 furlongs since June, a range that gives her an excellent chance in Friday’s Queen of the North Handicap for fillies and mares at Port Macquarie Racecourse north of Sydney.
A daring mid-race move by Chad Schofield catapulted Maximus into the thick of Four-Year-Old Classic Series contention and this Sunday (24 January) at Sha Tin the striking chestnut is readying for a big-race upset in the first leg of the three-race series, the HK$12 million Hong Kong Classic Mile.
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.
