Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, June 24, 2018
Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, June 24, 2018 - Sha Tin
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Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, June 24, 2018 - Sha Tin
The Group 1 Coronation Stakes and the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup headline the six-race Royal Ascot card on Friday as two more American horses try to land a punch in England.
Poet’s Word ran down the odds-on Cracksman to win the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday at Royal Ascot.
Blue Point, beaten in his first five Group 1 races in England and Hong Kong, proved the spoiler in Tuesday’s Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot, finishing 1 3/4 lengths in front of the highly regarded Battaash.
Accidental Agent, who never had won a group stakes race of any sort, won the Group 1, $838,500 Queen Anne Stakes to start the Royal Ascot meeting Tuesday in England.
John Gosden first won the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1994, and there will a host of downcast bettors if he fails to win it for a fourth time on Wednesday.
Order Of St. George's outstanding record in marathon races will make him the favorite for Thursday's $662,500 Ascot Gold Cup, the main race on the third day of five at the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting, which continues through Saturday.
Lady Aurelia and Battaash start nearly side by side in Tuesday's Group 1 King's Stand Stakes at five furlongs at Royal Ascot in England. The post positions are somewhat fitting. The two have been inseparable in the betting in recent days.
Laurens was a brave winner of the Group 1 Prix de Diane on Sunday at Chantilly, the first classic-race winner for trainer Karl Burke and onetime jumps rider P.J. McDonald.
There is no soft opening to the Royal Ascot meeting, which launches right into full flight Tuesday with one of the best races of the five-day meet, the Group 1 Queen Anne over a straight-course mile.