Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Thursday, October 1, 2020
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Thursday, October 1, 2020 at Sha Tin.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Thursday, October 1, 2020 at Sha Tin.
Supremacy wired the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes in a game performance, Alcohol Free desperately held off Miss Amulet and Umm Kulthum, and New Mandate punched his ticket to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on a card highlighted by 2-year-old racing Saturday at Newmarket in England.
Picks for the Sha Tin card on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020.
Isabella Giles won the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes by two lengths on Friday at Newmarket, but while the race is part of the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, it’s runner-up Nazuna who might be the more likely runner in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf in November at Keeneland.
The two-time champ meets the wannabe champ, and they are not fighting on a level playing field in the Group 3 Celebration Cup Handicap on Sunday at Sha Tin. The handicap weights work strongly in favor of Golden Sixty when he faces Beauty Generation in the 1,400-meter Celebration Cup.
Our Big Mike was a stakes winner in New Zealand in 2018 and raced unsuccessfully in group stakes in that country. Where he fits in Australian racing will be better known after Sunday’s $98,280 R.M. Ansett Classic at Mornington Racecourse near Melbourne.
Aidan O’Brien never has won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, but he starts the favorite Friday at Newmarket for the Group 2 Rockfel Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In for the Juvenile Fillies Turf in November at Keeneland.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, September 27, 2020 at Sha Tin.
Bella Vella has compiled a four-race winning streak since March, a span highlighted by a victory in a Group 1 sprint in May. Fabergino has also won her last four starts since October and won her group stakes debut in a Group 3 in May. The two Australian-bred mares, both 6-year-olds, are in peak form approaching their first meeting in Friday’s Group 1 Moir Stakes at five furlongs at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne.
Russian Camelot is an Irish-bred colt who rose to prominence in Australian racing earlier this year with an impressive win in the Group 1 South Australian Derby in May. The win pushed Russian Camelot to the top of the future-book market for the Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Nov. 3, a position he can solidify with a win in Saturday's Group 1 Underwood Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.