Hong Kong selections for Sunday, April 14, 2019
Hong Kong selections for Sunday, April 14, 2019 - Sha Tin
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Hong Kong selections for Sunday, April 14, 2019 - Sha Tin
Magical needed no tricks to win the first start of her 4-year-old season. The Aidan O’Brien-trained filly, who made two-time Arc winner Enable work to win the Breeders’ Cup Turf by a half-length in her 3-year-old finale, easily won the Group 3 Alleged Stakes on Saturday at Naas in Ireland.
Spring buds are bursting open in Paris – literally and figuratively. The figurative types, 3-year-olds gearing up for the European classics, will have a chance to flower in three Group 3 stakes on Sunday at Longchamp.
Champions Way began his Hong Kong career Jan. 30 as a 52-rated Class 4 handicapper at Happy Valley. Four races and four wins later, he is the leading light in the featured 11th race Sunday at Sha Tin.
Admire Mars, the champion 2-year-old male in Japan in 2018, and the undefeated Saturnalia will meet for the first time in Sunday’s Grade 1 Japanese 2000 Guineas at Nakayama Racecourse, a showdown of the two leading 3-year-old prospects this year.
As the European 3-year-old season heats up, the name on everyone’s mind is Too Darn Hot, but things went south for Europe’s top 2-year-old of 2018 this week and the colt will miss his intended comeback start this weekend in the Greenham Stakes at Newbury.
Bye Bye Hong Kong won the $77,000 Woodford Reserve Cardinal Conditions Stakes on Thursday at Chelmsford in the final leg of the European Road to the Kentucky Derby.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, April 14, 2019 - Sha Tin
The grandstands are sold out. The weather will be perfect. Expectations are sky high. Everything is in place for Winx's final caeer start in Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Randwick.
Seven Heavens is overdue for his first win in Hong Kong. With a little luck in recent starts, the elusive victory would have occurred. Seven Heavens will have his 15th start in Hong Kong in Wednesday’s $180,053 Dongcheng District Handicap at six furlongs at Happy Valley Racecourse.