Now, this was more like it. Winx stretched her winning streak to 21 races in Saturday’s Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, scoring easily by 6 1/2 lengths.
A full field of 14 contests the last-race feature on the Sunday card at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong. The $238,282 Yeung UK Handicap is carded for 1400 meters on turf and is difficult to parse.
Andrew Hawkins' Sha Tin selections and analysis for Sunday, October 8, 2017
Closing steadily on Bobby Frankel's record of 25 Grade 1 or Group 1 winners in a year, Aidan O'Brien has a live chance to notch another top-level victory in the Group 1 Sun Chariot Stakes on Saturday at Newmarket.
Saturday, Winx will have her Flemington debut in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf against six overmatched rivals. As of Thursday, Winx was the 1-5 favorite in future-book betting.
Happy Valley selections for Thursday, October 5
Dinozzo, the 4-year-old Irish-bred gelding, ended the 2016-17 Hong Kong season with a disappointing performance, finishing a troubled fifth in a handicap at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Sha Tin racecourse in July.
Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Thursday, October 5, 2017 at Happy Valley.
Enable, the heroine of the 2017 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, might well race again next year, but barring a change in plans, she will not be racing again this year.
Red Falx won the Grade 1 Sprinters Stakes for the second consecutive year at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan on Sunday, a race that moves the 6-year-old closer to the title of Japan’s top sprinter of the 2017.
