Hong Kong Bet, a 4-year-old Australian-bred gelding, had his first season of racing in Hong Kong in 2018-19, winning two of six starts. The wins were at five furlongs on turf at Happy Valley Racecourse in May and July, the final months of a season that ended in July. Hong Kong resumed racing earlier this month, and Hong Kong Bet will have his first start of the new term in familiar surroundings.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at Happy Valley.
The turf sprinter Fairyland and 2-year-old filly Love earned fees-paid berths to Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita on Nov. 1-2 after winning Group 1 races on an outstanding program at the Curragh in Ireland on Sunday. The star of the program, however, was the 2-year-old colt Pinatubo.
American owner Peter Brant campaigns some of the best turf horses in the U.S. and now has come up with a real contender for the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe next month in Paris.
Styling City drops a class, perhaps into a winning spot, in the featured ninth race Sunday at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
Had she come along at a different time, Magical might be hailed as a superstar, but Magical races in the shadow of the great Enable, although on Saturday at Leopardstown, Magical showed again she casts her own long shadow winning the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths.
Hong Kong selections for Sunday, September 15, 2019 at Sha Tin.
Logician ended a perfect 3-year-old season with a sharp win in Saturday’s Group 1 English St. Leger at Doncaster Racecourse.
Enable, the best horse in the world, finally has taken her rightful place atop the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings.
Enable remains heavily favored to become the first three-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after winning her Arc prep, the Yorkshire Oaks, but Longchamp's card Sunday includes a host of Arc hopefuls. Chief among them is Sotsass, odds-on favorite in the Group 2 Prix Niel.
