Hong Kong Selections for Sunday, April 19, 2020
Hong Kong selections for Sunday, April 19, 2020 at Sha Tin.
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Hong Kong selections for Sunday, April 19, 2020 at Sha Tin.
There were no photo finishes required in Contrail’s unbeaten season in 2019, which led to him being named Japan’s champion 2-year-old male. Contrail, a colt by top Japanese stallion Deep Impact, will start his 3-year-old season at Nakayama Racecourse on Sunday in the Grade 1 Japanese 2000 Guineas at 1 1/4 miles, a race formally known as the Setsuki Sho.
Freeze’emoff will be back in familiar surroundings for Sunday’s $62,300 Geraldton Gold Cup at 1 5/16 miles against males. While she was sixth in the same race last year, and faces a tougher field than in recent starts, Freeze’emoff has a few factors in her favor Sunday.
Featured on a 10-race card Sunday at Sha Tin is race 9, a Class 2 1,200-meter handicap over the dirt course, but the most interesting horse on the program, Mighty Giant, starts in race 10.
A winner of 7 of 25 starts, Zoffany’s Lad is effective at distances ranging from about a mile to 1 1/4 miles. His stamina will be tested in Friday’s Orange Gold Cup Showcase at 1 5/16 miles at Towac Park outside of Orange, Australia.
The British Horseracing Authority, ruling body of the sport in England, announced Wednesday it was indefinitely extending a suspension of all racing that began March 18 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A winner of 10 of 39 starts, Santa Ana Lane is winless in his last six starts leading to an appearance in Saturday's Group 1 All Aged Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney. The only time the 7-year-old Southern Hemisphere gelding has gone longer without a win was a 12-race span early in his career from late 2015 to early 2017.
Drying conditions in Australia may suit Invincible Lad in a handicap at five furlongs on turf at Wyong Racecourse on Thursday.
Private Secretary should be happy to return to Happy Valley, while his jockey, Antoine Hamelin, surely is happy just to be in Hong Kong.
Wednesday, bettors may easily focus on Dio D’Oro in the Vale Might and Power Handicap at 7 3/4 furlongs on the Kensington course at Royal Randwick.