Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at Happy Valley.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at Happy Valley.

Glory Vase got a glorious trip under Joao Moreira and won the $2.55 million Hong Kong Vase to kick off the Group 1 action on the Hong Kong International Races program Sunday at Sha Tin.

Beat the Clock was up just in time to win his first Hong Kong Sprint after finishing third in the race last year.

Superstar Japanese filly Almond Eye picked a bad time to get a little sick and had to miss the Hong Kong Cup, but the Cup, anchor of the Hong Kong International race card, delivered a feverish finish in her absence.
Hong Kong Selections for Saturday, December 7, 2019 at Sha Tin.

For much of the last two years, Beauty Generation's camp had no need to hunt excuses. Now they find themselves scrambling for answers.

American race fans will find one very familiar name in the the Hong Kong Cup, the Group 1, $3.58 million anchor of the Hong Kong International Races on Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse, Magic Wand, and another, Edisa, who won the inaugural edition of the Jockey Club Oaks Invitational in September at Belmont Park.
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Only twice since 2000 has a Hong Kong-based horse won the Vase, but one of those occasions came when Exultant won in 2018, and Exultant probably is a better horse now than then.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, December 8, 2019 at Sha Tin.

Magic Wand has come to Hong Kong for one of the Hong Kong International Races, to be contested Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse, and her start in the Group 1 Hong Kong Cup caps a campaign that has entailed about 60,000 miles of traveling