The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup, which drew a maximum field of 16, is a listed stakes and will be the first start for Best of Days in a non-group level stakes since a second in a handicap at Caulfield in September 2018. Best of Days has won 5 of 27 starts, including the Group 2 Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket, England, in 2016, but is winless in his last 13 starts.
Imagine an American 2-year-old filly winning a Grade 2 sprint in September or October and then facing older fillies and mares in a Grade 1 race a few weeks later. While that seems impossible, the scenario will take place in Australia on Saturday when Away Game starts in the Group 1 TAB Classic for fillies and mares at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide.
Earlier in his career, Fell Swoop was a four-time stakes winner good enough to place in Group 1 sprints in Australia. The 8-year-old Southern Hemisphere gelding had a rough 2019, going winless in four starts, and has not had much success of late.Trainer Matthew Dale has selected an easier race for Fell Swoop in Thursday’s $103,840 Wagga Town Plate at six furlongs at Wagga Racecourse.
With trainer John Moore in the waning weeks of his long Hong Kong career, it's uncertain what the future – both the rest of this racing season and the 2020-21 Hong Kong season – hold for two of his best-known charges, Beauty Generation and Aethero.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at Happy Valley.
Harpo Marx has a serious chance to record his first career win in Australia in Wednesday’s Sky Racing Active Handicap at 1 1/2 miles at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney.
Proven at seven furlongs in recent starts, Airfree will start at a mile for the first time since early 2019 in a handicap Tuesday at Kembla Grange Racecourse in Australia.
Exultant did all the dirty work and bravely held off Furore to post a three-quarter-length win in the Group 1, $3.23 million Queen Elizabeth II Cup on Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
The coronavirus pandemic prevented Southern Legend from traveling to Singapore from Kong Kong to try and win his third straight Kranji Cup. Instead, he stayed home and denied Beauty Generation his third straight Champions Mile – but just barely.
Antilia won consecutive starts for the first time in her career, taking minor handicaps in Australia in March, and had that winning streak interrupted by a narrow loss in a one-mile handicap on April 7. Antilia was beaten only a neck in that race, a promising performance that makes her the horse to beat in a handicap at about seven furlongs at Grafton Racecourse in Australia on Monday.
