In her brief career, Hardspot has turned her quickness into four wins in seven starts at minor tracks in Australia. A 5-year-old Southern Hemisphere mare, Hardspot has excelled at five and six furlongs, which makes her presence in a six-furlong handicap at Newcastle Racecourse on Thursday all the more intriguing.
Hong Kong selections for Happy Valley on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.
In two starts in March and once earlier this month, Lancer closed with interest in six-furlong races in Australia to lose twice by a nose and once by two lengths. A start in a longer race has arrived. Lancer is entered in a handicap at about 7 3/4 furlongs at Canterbury Park in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday that could put the Southern Hemisphere 3-year-old gelding in the winner’s circle for the second time in his eighth start.
Hong Kong-based top-level horses were putting in final preparations this week for the three Group 1 races carded for Sunday at Sha Tin – the QE II Cup, the Champions Mile, and the Chairman’s Sprint Prize.
Trainer Caspar Fownes is the king of Happy Valley, and in Dancing Fighter, Fownes might have the right horse for the co-featured eighth race Wednesday at Happy Valley.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at Happy Valley.
It is something of a surprise that the New Zealand-bred gelding Shockingly has won two of his last three starts in Australia since late January.
Contrail began his 3-year-old season Sunday in the same manner he ended his 2019 campaign in Japan – winning a Grade 1 race to emphasize his positon as the leader of his generation.
The lightly raced gelding Lesham will face winners for the first time in a six-furlong handicap at Mornington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday.
King’s Legacy rallied from midfield to win his second consecutive Group 1 race in Saturday’s $252,800 Champagne Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia.
