Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020
Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
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Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
Pandemic was part of two schooling races in September, and will return from a layoff of seven months for his fourth start of 2020 in a five-furlong handicap on Wednesday at Warwick Farm Racecourse on the outskirts of Sydney.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at Happy Valley.
Sottsass surged between horses in the homestretch and won the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe by about a neck over In Swoop as Enable failed for the second year in a row to become the first three-time Arc winner.
Aidan O’Brien’s four entrants in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe on Sunday in Paris have been withdrawn from the race for fear they will test positive for a banned substance that mysteriously has appeared in equine feed used overseas.
Coterie was once so highly regarded that he started in a seven-figure race in Australia, finishing a respectable fourth in the Inglis Sprint at Warwick Farm Racecourse in February 2019. These days, Coterie runs in handicaps worth a fraction of that prize money, but appears in races that seem to be a better fit for the 5-year-old gelding.
Selections for Sha Tin's card on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020.
Excellent Proposal takes another step down the path to stakes racing when he starts in the featured Chek Lap Kok Handicap on Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
For his first 123 starts, Gentleman Max, the 8-year-old gelding who races in Australia, was trained by Trevor Sutherland. Gentleman Max was transferred to trainer Keith Dryden in August after Sutherland was suspended by stewards in the state of New South Wales over animal welfare issues. Gentleman Max will have his third outing for Dryden, and 126th start, in Sunday’s Cootamundra Cup at a mile at Cootamundra Racecourse in the Australian countryside.
Enable's greatness has shined on two continents over four seasons. In races between 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 miles on turf there has been no better horse, day in and day out, anywhere in the world since Enable came to the fore during her 3-year-old season of 2017. She already has joined the rarefied club of two-time winners of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, but if she is to become the first three-time Arc winner, Enable will have to slog through a bog Sunday at Longchamp.