Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at Happy Valley.
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Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at Happy Valley.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, July 3, 2019 at Happy Valley.
The $249,603 Hoi Ha Handicap at about a mile and 50 yards at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong on Wednesday will be the longest race Fat Turtle has run in.
Coronet lost the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud one year ago by a nose, but in Sunday’s 2019 renewal of this Group 1 fixture at Saint-Cloud racecourse she won it by a head.
Rising 3-year-olds Thanks Forever and Big Party at the most interesting entrants in the featured Hong Kong Reunification Cup on a rare Monday card at Sha Tin.
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Sovereign appeared to be a pace-maker for his superior Aidan O’Brien-trained stablemates Anthony Van Dyck and Broome but instead led from start to finish posting a major upset in the Group 1 Irish Derby on Saturday at The Curragh.
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.