Hong Kong: Happy Valley selections for Sept. 16, 2020
Full-card selections for Happy Valley on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.
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Full-card selections for Happy Valley on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.
The listed Heatherlie Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse in Australia on Aug. 29 was a little steep for the mare Minola. She finished 10th of 16 in her stakes debut as a 60-1 outsider. A handicap at 1 3/8 miles at Bendigo Racecourse on Wednesday is a better fit, but also a stamina test in what will be the longest race of Minola’s brief career.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at Happy Valley.
In March and April, Ligulate won two six-figure races at Tamworth Racecourse in Australia before and after an eighth-place finish in a much tougher race at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. Ligulate ended that portion of the year with a nose win in the Tamworth Cup in April, his final start before being rested through the Australian winter. Monday, Ligulate will be favored in his first start of a spring campaign in a six-furlong handicap at Tamworth that drew a field of 12.
Hong Kong Selections for September 13, 2020 at Sha Tin
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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.