Australia: Gytrash has home-course advantage in Goodwood Stakes
Gytrash will try to continue his success at Morphettville Racecourse in Saturday's Group 1 Goodwood Stakes at six furlongs.
Steve AndersenMay 13, 2020
Gytrash will try to continue his success at Morphettville Racecourse in Saturday's Group 1 Goodwood Stakes at six furlongs.
The English bookmakers, at least, aren’t seeing much separating most of the 13 3-year-olds entered in the Group 3 Prix Texanita, featured race Wednesday on a 10-race program at Chantilly.
Head Spins was a fast-closing second in a handicap at 5 1/2 furlongs on April 25 at Gosford Racecourse in Australia, missing by a nose to an 18-1 rival. The narrow loss was the second start of 2020 for Head Spins and may have been an ideal prep for a six-furlong handicap Thursday at Wyong Racecourse.
Enzel did his best Secretariat impression in his career debut last Nov. 19 at Saint-Cloud. What Enzel can do as a follow-up to the epic debut will be demonstrated Tuesday, when Enzel makes his second start and 3-year-old debut in the co-featured Prix Torbillon, the eighth of 10 races at Saint-Cloud.
From Argentina by way of Hong Kong, the 7-year-old gelding He Runs Away has found a new home this year with top trainer Chris Waller in Australia.
Easily the most interesting horse in four Class 3 races on Wednesday's Happy Valley card is Delightful Laos, an Irish import by Baltic King who won in a similar spot just a few weeks back.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at Happy Valley.
One slight favorite prevailed and a pair of odds-on betting choices floundered as spectator-free racing returned to Longchamp on Monday.
German racing restarted last week, which was cool, but England, Ireland, and France are the most important European racing jurisdictions, so Monday marks the return of major European flat racing with several cards across France. Easily the best of them is a 10-race program at Longchamp that includes three stakes.
Lauda Sion, a 28-1 outsider who was second and third in graded stakes in September and March, recorded a surprise win in Sunday’s Grade 1 NHK Mile at Tokyo Racecourse, catching the champion pacesetter Resistencia in the final furlong.