Hong Kong selections for Sha Tin on Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Hong Kong selections for Sha Tin on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
Hong Kong selections for Sha Tin on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.

The rivalry between Columbus County and Hello Daddy might not be long term, but it's definitely long distance.
Hong Kong selections for Sha Tin on Saturday, June 27, 2020.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Magical made her four opponents disappear in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes on Sunday at The Curragh.

In 2019, the mare Lys Gracieux won the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen in a season she was named Japan’s Horse of the Year. Sunday, the 4-year-old filly Chrono Genesis won the second Grade 1 race of her career in the $2.71 million Takarazuka Kinen at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.
There is an excellent chance Australian trainer Gary Portelli will win the seventh race at Gosford Racecourse north of Sydney on Tuesday. In a field of 13 in a six-furlong handicap, Portelli starts expected favorite Spaceboy, the 136.6-pound topweight, and Exceltic, who is second in the weights at 130 pounds.
The improving gelding Macgyver’s Me Mate has had four races in his brief career, winning his last two since late May at seven furlongs at Albury Racecourse in Australia. He starts at a mile for the first time on Monday as the favorite in an 11-runner handicap at Albury.
Tom’s d’Etat is not the only 7-year-old in career-best form racing this weekend. While 7-year-old Tom’s d’Etat was set to start favorite Saturday at Churchill Downs in the Grade 2 Stephen Foster Stakes, 7-year-old Way to Paris can win his first Group 1 Sunday in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

Magical, a $4 million mare, launches her 5-year-old campaign Sunday at The Curragh in the Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes.