Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at Happy Valley.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at Happy Valley.
Saudi Arabia’s racing authority announced Monday it is withholding the distribution of the purse from the $20 million Saudi Cup due to the indictment of the trainer of the winning horse on charges related to administering illegal substances to horses.
Eight races into his career, True Marvel won for the first time in a maiden race on March 23 at Goulborn Racecourse in Australia. The breakthrough may have come at a favorable time. True Marvel is the only runner in a field of eight in Tuesday’s first race at Newcastle Racecourse with a victory in their last start. Four of the runners were third in their last outing.
Daring Tact rallied from the back of a field of 18 3-year-old fillies to win her graded stakes debut in Sunday’s Grade 1 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin Racecourse.
There are several appealing Southern Hemisphere 2-year-olds in the Easter Monday Handicap at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, and the presence of a very promising rider in the country on a short-term basis.
Selections for Hong Kong racing on Saturday, April 11, 2020, at Happy Valley Racecourse.
Con Te Partiro, a stakes winner at Saratoga and Royal Ascot in 2016 and 2017 for trainer Wesley Ward, won her third stakes in Australia on Saturday in the Group 1 Legacy Stakes for fillies and mares at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.
For his first start in nearly five months, the gelding Rapido Chaparro will start in his shortest race since June in Sunday’s $42,800 Moruya Cup at about seven furlongs.
The draw for Sunday’s Grade 1 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin Racecourse was not kind to Resistencia, the country’s champion 2-year-old filly of 2019.
Beauty Legacy, a 4-year-old with plenty of racing whose brain still is playing catch-up to his body, is one of the intriguing players in Sha Tin's best race on the card.