Enable will prep for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the Group 3 September Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile race over an oval Polytrack course. It might seem like weird placement for one of the best horses of recent years, but it's not. This is the same race Enable won in 2018 before becoming the eighth horse to win the Arc twice.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, September 6, 2020 at Sha Tin.
DRF’s guide provides an explanation of the data available for Hong Kong racing, details the structure of racing there, and offers closer look at the two racing tracks – Sha Tin and Happy Valley. The guide also provides an explanation of the various bet types.
His pedigree has influences from the top of Japanese and Australian racing. His stable is known for producing top-class runners. No wonder Bucharest is a highly regarded 3-year-old in Australia.
In his six-year career, the 10-year-old Australian-bred gelding Lucky Elixir has never won three consecutive races. The chance arrives Monday in a handicap at 1 5/16 miles at Tamworth Racecourse.
A layoff of more than three months may revive the fortunes of Magnajet, a 4-year-old Southern Hemisphere colt who starts in a five-furlong handicap at Sale Racecourse in Australia on Sunday.
Australian cup races at smaller venues have become common in the 2020 campaign of At Witz End, the 5-year-old Southern Hemisphere gelding. On Friday, At Witz End will start in the Murwillumbah Cup at 7 3/4 furlongs in his debut at Murwillumbah Racecourse, located south of Gold Coast in northern New South Wales.
In the span of a hour on Aug. 15, Behemoth and Savatiano won group stakes in Australia in their first starts since losing Group 1 races in May. Those wins have led to Saturday's Group 1 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, where Behemoth and Savatiano lead the betting in what could result in a first Group 1 win for one of them.
Since he beat maidens in his second career start in Australia last November, Zorro’s Dream has finished last of eight as the 6-5 favorite in a statebred stakes at Ballarat Racecourse and was later gelded. Nine months later, Zorro’s Dream returns to action in a six-furlong handicap at Mornington Racecourse in the Australian state of Victoria.
For a colt purchased for $1.1 million as a yearling at Keeneland in 2017, Cadre du Noir still has much to prove.
