Insayshable making long-awaited second start
Insayshable makes a long-awaited second start in Wednesday’s $237,027 Manawatu Racing Club Challenge Trophy at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Happy Valley.
Steve AndersenJun 25, 2018
Insayshable makes a long-awaited second start in Wednesday’s $237,027 Manawatu Racing Club Challenge Trophy at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Happy Valley.
Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - Happy Valley
Exultant justified his status as an odds-on favorite by winning his second Group 3 race in recent weeks in Sunday’s $382,331 Premier Plate at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
Mikki Rocket ended a streak of nine consecutive graded stakes losses with a first-ever Grade 1 win in Sunday’s $2,644,357 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse.
Merchant Navy became a Group 1 winner in Europe for the first time in Saturday’s $794,640 Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot in England, a race marred by a controversial start by 5-2 favorite Harry Angel.
Vivlos, based in Japan, is winless in four starts since the Grade 1 Shuka Sho in October 2016. On Sunday, Vivlos appears well positioned to end the drought in the Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Hanshin Racecourse.
With consecutive Group 1 wins in the spring, Pakistan Star has made an excellent case to be recognized as the Hong Kong Horse of the Year for the 2017-18 season, which ends next month. Two runners who chased him in those races – Exultant and Gold Mount – can have their own late-season success in Sunday’s Group 3 Premier Plate at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Sha Tin Racecourse.
Alpha Centauri stole the show Friday at Royal Ascot. The scopey gray filly cruised up to the lead three paths from the fence as the field swung for home in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, and by the time she had finished her run, she was six lengths clear as jockey Colm O’Donoghue raised his left fist to the cheering throngs at the finish line.
Stradivarius gave legendary trainer John Gosden his first win in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup at the Royal Ascot meeting on Thursday.
The 4-year-old colt Harry Angel has been a top sprinter in England in the last two years – as long as he is away from Ascot.