Saturday, Surprise Baby will have his second start of the year in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington, a race with ramifications for the Melbourne Cup and the Group 1 Caulfield Cup on Oct. 17.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, October 1, 2020 at Sha Tin.
The second running of the $20 million Saudi Cup has been scheduled for Feb. 20 of next year at King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh, the race organizers announced Tuesday.
Night Guy was dismissed at 20-1 at Geelong Racecourse in Australia on Sept. 6, the day he closed from last of 11 to win a seven-furlong handicap. Night Guy won for the second time in his seven-race career that day. The victory has made the gelding the focus of a handicap at about six furlongs at Geelong on Thursday.
Only seven could be mustered for the Group 3 National Day Handicap on a special holiday Thursday afternoon card at Sha Tin in Hong Kong.
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.
