Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020
Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020.
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Happy Valley selections for Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020.
Green Luck began his 2019-2020 Hong Kong season winning a Class 2 handicap over 1,650 meters at Happy Valley and might start his 2020-2021 campaign Wednesday night the same way.
In the end, Enable wasn't able to become the first three-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, but that is no reason not to celebrate the end of the mare's brilliant racing career. Enable officially was retired from racing Monday, eight days after she finished sixth while starting in her fourth Arc.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at Happy Valley.
It was a one-two sweep for trainer Aidan O’Brien in the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket as St. Mark’s Basilica improved considerably from his National Stakes performance last month in Ireland and beat Wembley by a half-length in the straight-course, seven-furlong contest for 2-year-olds.
Zavy’s Hope was beaten about a neck in a handicap at Grafton Racecourse in Australia on Sept. 21, a narrow setback that ended a two-race winning streak. The loss came in a race at about 1 3/8 miles, the longest of Zavy’s Hope’s 10-race career. The experience could be a significant benefit when the 4-year-old Australian-bred mare starts in a handicap at the slightly shorter distance of about 1 1/4 miles at Murwillumbah Racecourse on Monday.
Sha Tin selections for Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020.
The high-profile Danny O'Brien stable starts Plein Ciel in Sunday’s Cranbourne Cup at about 1 1/4 miles, conditions that should be a good fit for the 8-year-old German-bred gelding.
Pinatubo, the European champion 2-year-old male of 2019, has been retired and will be sent to stud in England in 2021, according to a statement released Friday by Godolphin Racing.
Thunder Moon, eye-catching winner of the Group 1 National Stakes at The Curragh, and Chindit, unbeaten from three starts, the most recent a sharp score in the Group 2 Champagne at Doncaster, head an unusually deep renewal of the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket.