It could be ladies’ day Sunday at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in France, where the featured Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud sports a trio of females who might have a better chance than the four males entered in the 1 1/2-mile fixture.
Iridessa, soundly beaten in two Group 1 races for 3-year-old fillies at a mile earlier this year in England and Ireland, won the longest race of her career and first start against older fillies and mares in Friday’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh Racecourse in Ireland.
Among trainer Aidan O'Brien's six winners of the Derby at Epsom before this year, four returned to capture the Irish Derby, and on Saturday at The Curragh, Anthony Van Dyck, winner of the 2019 Derby, will try to follow Galileo, High Chaparral, Camelot, and Australia with an O'Brien Derby double.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Monday, July 1, 2019 - Sha Tin
Wild Illusion and Magic Wand, second and fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs last November, meet for the first time this year in Friday’s Group 1 Pretty Polly Stakes for fillies and mares at The Curragh Racecourse in Ireland.
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, April 25, 2019 at Happy Valley.
For a 133-pound highweight, Country Star has a few advantages in Wednesday’s $249,708 Grass Island Handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, June 26, 2019 at Happy Valley.
Lys Gracieux, the only mare in a field of 12, won the richest race of her career in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan, pulling clear in the final furlong for a comprehensive win by three lengths.
Hong Kong selections for Sunday, June 23, 2019 - Sha Tin
