Australia: Scout looks to rebound in QTIS 3-year-old Handicap
Group stakes and seven-figure races in Australia have been too difficult for the 3-year-old gelding Scout in recent months.
Steve AndersenApr 07, 2020
Group stakes and seven-figure races in Australia have been too difficult for the 3-year-old gelding Scout in recent months.
The first four Classic races on the English calendar have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was announced Tuesday.
Selections for Hong Kong racing on Wednesday, April 8, 2020, at Happy Valley Racecourse.
In Australia this year, Surrey Thunder was fourth in his debut in the country, in a handicap at Rosehill Gardens on March 28. Now trained by Chris Waller, who looked after the world famous mare Winx, Surrey Thunder will have his second start in Australia in the Vinery Handicap at a mile at Warwick Farms Racecourse on Wednesday.
They're busting down the doors to get into the featured eighth race Wednesday night at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong, with an overflow field of 14 entered in a wildly competitive Class 2 handicap.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at Happy Valley.
Last month, days before the Southern Hemisphere autumn, Queen of Style was second in a handicap at Callaghan Park in Rockhampton, a prep for Tuesday’s Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic, a sale-progeny race at six furlongs at the same venue. Tuesday’s $45,000 Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic is the richest race at four racetracks operating in Australia on Tuesday afternoon, or late evening on Monday and very early Tuesday across American time zones.
Beauty Generation has started another win streak, which stands at two after he scored a handy half-length win over pacesetting Ka Ying Star in the Group 2, $548,270 Chairman’s Cup run spectator-free at Sha Tin.
I’m a Cracker didn’t debut until March 12, winning a maiden race at 4 1/2 furlongs by nearly two lengths at Gunnedah, Australia. The lack of race experience may work in the favor of the 4-year-old Southern Hemisphere gelding with a light weight assignment in Monday’s Emirates Park Handicap at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf at Scone Race Club.
Nettoyer, a pizza-eating 7-year-old mare, closed from well of the pace to record a shocking 55-1 win in Saturday’s Group 1 Doncaster Mile at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Australia.