A workers’ protest forced the cancellation of the Criterium International a year ago, but as far as anyone knows, the Group 1 race for 2-year-olds over one mile at Saint-Cloud is on again Sunday.
After toting 119 last time to win his seasonal debut, Circuit Glory is up to 123 running back at the same class level and distance in the co-featured seventh race Sunday at Happy Valley, a Class 2 handicap carded at 1650 meters.
Suave Richard, the winner of the Grade 1 Osaka Hai in April, will have his first start since June in Sunday’s Grade 1 Tenno Sho Stakes at Tokyo Racecourse, a vital prep race for the Grade 1 Japan Cup at the same venue on Nov. 25.
Aidan O’Brien has two juveniles entered in the Group 1 Criterium de Saint-Cloud on Saturday in France and three, including favored Magna Grecia, in the Group 1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes on Saturday at Doncaster in England.
Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, October 28, 2018 - Happy Valley
Winx will try to extend one record and set another when she goes for an unprecedented fourth Cox Plate while attempting to win her 29th consecutive race Saturday at Moonee Valley in Australia.
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - Happy Valley
Perfect Glory will be the focus of Wednesday’s $176,033 Perfect Gear Handicap at six furlongs on turf at Happy Valley in Hong Kong. Perfect Glory is the 133-pound highweight in a field of 12 and will break from post 5 under jockey Chad Schofield.
Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Wednesday, October 24 at Happy Valley.
Beauty Generation and Hot King Prawn won the co-featured Group 2 races Sunday at Sha Tin, though victory by the former might have stronger major-race implications than the success of the latter.
