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.
A one-mile race at Bendigo Racecourse in Australia is run around one turn on a left-handed track, a layout familiar to American racing fans. The long run to the turn in such a race could help Analytica, who starts from post 11 in a field of 12 in a handicap at that distance on Sunday.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, May 3, 2020 at Sha Tin.
Sharp recent form, a reasonable weight, and proven ability over a distance unusually long by Hong Kong racing standards make Helene Leadingstar a likely winner of the Group 3, $403,137 Queen Mother Memorial Cup on Sunday at Sha Tin.
