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Four-year-old Lucky More is only seven races into his Hong Kong career and races for the first time since May 31 in this Class 2 handicap over a straight 1,000 meters for horses rated 100-80. Trained by Cliff Shum, Lucky More made his last four starts of the 2019-2020 season in 1,200-meter Sha Tin races around a bend, but he began his Hong Kong career with three straight-course 1,000-meter starts and raced effectively, with a win, a second, and a fifth while rising from an official rating of 52 to 69.
The 3-year-old filly Raabihah and the English Derby winner Serpentine are among the talented horses on display Sunday at Longchamp, where three races at 1 1/2 miles will be run as preps for the Oct. 3 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe over the same course and distance.
A 4-year-old New Zealand-bred mare, Realm of Flowers starts for the first time since May in a seven-furlong handicap at Cranbourne Racecourse on Sunday.
Phoenix Thoroughbreds, the global racing operation founded and run by Amer Abdulaziz Salman, has been banned by the British Horseracing Authority in the wake of money-laundering allegations involving a fund run by Salman.
Ghaiyyath is taking his talents to Ireland this weekend, and what he already has done in Dubai and England this year – crunch all competition – he'll be widely expected to do in his first trip to the Emerald Isle.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, September 13, 2020 at Sha Tin.
At first glance, the odds seem like a mistake. Vow and Declare, the winner of the Group 1 Melbourne Cup in Australia last November, was 50-1 in future-book betting on Thursday for Saturday’s Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes.
The Kentucky-bred gelding Yulong Storm is having a perfect year in Australia, going unbeaten in three starts since late July. Two of the wins have occurred at Swan Hill Racecourse outside of Melbourne, the venue of Yulong Storm’s appearance in a six-furlong handicap on Friday.
Melarita is an odds-on favorite to win again in a handicap for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles at Mornington Racecourse near Melbourne on Thursday.
