Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, December 12, 2020
Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Sha Tin.
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Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Sha Tin.
On addition to her looks, the race record of the Japanese 2-year-old filly Sodashi merits attention. A rare white Thoroughbred, Sodashi is unbeaten in three starts, including two Grade 3 races in September and October. Sunday at Hanshin Racecourse, Sodashi will be favored to win her Grade 1 debut in the $1.2 million Hanshin Juvenile Fillies at a mile on turf.
Forgotten Jewel was undefeated in three starts from February to July, racing at tracks in Western Australia. How that form translates to tougher races in tracks around Melbourne in the state of Victoria will be better known on Sunday when Forgotten Jewel starts in a seven-furlong handicap at Bendigo Racecourse.
Criaderas ran largely to bettors’ expectations with an eight-place finish in the $5.26 million Golden Eagle Stakes for Southern Hemisphere 4-year-olds at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Australia on Oct. 31. Criaderas had his stakes debut in the Golden Eagle and can win his first race at that level in Saturday’s Group 2 Villiers Stakes at a mile at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.
Win Bright is zero for his last four in Japan, his home base, finishing seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th in those starts, but when Win Bright has left Japan for Hong Kong, he has been awesome.
Championship-leading jockey Joao Moreira is riding at the peak of his powers with 51 wins this term - 20 clear of his nearest rival - and this Sunday (13 December) at Sha Tin the Brazilian ace will leave no stone unturned in his bid to replicate the heroics which saw him capture two of last year’s four G1 contests at the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races.
David Hayes will attempt to emulate the career-ending Cox Plate glories of retired Australian warhorse Fields Of Omagh when Beauty Generation attempts to annex a third HK$25 million G1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 December).
Classique Legend will have to defy LONGINES Hong Kong Sprint (1200m) history after the joint world’s top-rated sprinter drew barrier one in the HK$22 million G1 feature at Sha Tin on Sunday (13 December).
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A group stakes winner in June, Ballistic Boy could return to races at that level in coming months, pending the outcome of Friday’s Doomben Mile at Doomben Racecourse in Brisbane, Australia.