Saturday, Dalasan starts in the longest race of his career, the Group 1 South Australian Derby at 1 9/16 miles for Southern Hemisphere 3-year-olds at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide. As of Wednesday, Dalasan was the 2-1 favorite in future-book betting against 13 rivals in the $257,200 race.
Hong Kong selections for Happy Valley on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
With two wins in her first three races, Alchermes is off to a fine start and could be the beneficiary of a low weight assignment in a handicap at 7 1/2 furlongs on Thursday at Kembla Grange Racecourse in Australia.
Dances With Dragon beat Enrichment by a head while giving him seven pounds in a Class 2 handicap over 1,800 meters on April 15 at Happy Valley and will try to handle him again giving even more weight over a shorter trip in the featured ninth race Wednesday at Happy Valley.
A bold front-running style has put Inverloch in the best form of his career in recent months and given the 6-year-old gelding a topweight assignment in Wednesday’s $144,225 Warrnambool Cup at the racecourse of the same name in southern Australia.
The May carnival at Warrnambool Racecourse typically unfolds over three days before large enthusiastic crowds in the tiny coastal town in southern Australia.
Fierement won the springtime running of the Grade 1 Tenno Sho at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan on Sunday for the second consecutive year, but only by a nose over 63-1 Stiffelio.
Hong Kong selections for Sunday, May 3, 2020.
Dynamic Thinker was unlucky not to win for a second time in his career last November and December in the weeks following a victory in a maiden race at Gold Coast Racecourse in Australia. He was rested through the Australian summer and early fall leading to a comeback on Monday in a minor handicap at Ipswich Racecourse southwest of Brisbane.
A year ago, Fierement won the springtime running of the Grade 1 Tenno Sho at Kyoto Racecourse in Japan after a three-month layoff. Sunday, Fierement, now a 5-year-old, will try to win the same two-mile race after a layoff of more than four months.
