Divine Boy ended a 23-race losing streak in the Tsuen Lok Handicap at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on Oct. 10, his first career win on the track’s infield all-weather surface. Divine Boy was favored that day and is back on the same surface at Sha Tin on Wednesday evening in the $238,479 Hebe Hill Handicap at about a mile and 50 yards.
Kitasan Black will be favored to win the Japan Cup on Nov. 26 after winning a key prep in Sunday’s Grade 1 Tenno Sho Stakes at Tokyo Racecourse.
In her latest moment of Australian racing history, Winx became the second horse to win three consecutive runnings of the Group 1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne on Saturday.
Saxon Warrior stamped himself as a major contender for the 2018 classics and put trainer Aidan O’Brien’s name in the record books by winning the Racing Post Trophy Stakes on Saturday at Doncaster Racecourse in England.
Weekend racing in Hong Kong nearly always is the province of Sha Tin Racecourse, but this Sunday’s 10-race card comes at the normal weekday venue, Happy Valley.
Aidan O’Brien has entered three – Delano Roosevelt, Kew Gardens, and Nelson – in the 1 1/4-mile Criterium de Saint-Cloud, which is open to 2-year-old fillies and colts, and has Threeandfourpence for the seven-furlong Criterium International, restricted to colts and geldings.
Kitasan Black, the winner of the 2016 Japan Cup, will be favored in Sunday’s Grade 1 Tenno Sho Stakes at Tokyo Racecourse, a key prep to this year’s Japan Cup on Nov. 26.
Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017
Aidan O'Brien saddles three runners in the last Group 1 of the English flat season, the Racing Post Trophy on Saturday at Doncaster. If one of the O'Brien three wins, he will break Bobby Frankel's record of 25 Group 1 or Grade 1 winners in a calendar year.
Winx goes for her 22nd straight win in Saturday's Group 1 Cox Plate at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Moonee Valley in Melbourne, Australia.
