Sunday’s final program of the Hong Kong season at Sha Tin Racecourse is equally a preview of the 2017-18 season that begins in early September, which could see Beat the Clock develop into a stakes runner.
The unbeaten Caravaggio will be favored to win his debut against older horses in Saturday’s Group 1 July Cup at six furlongs on turf at Newmarket Racecourse in England.
Sha Tin selections and analysis for Sunday, July 16
Five of the seven entrants in Friday’s Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket are 3-year-olds, and those fillies will get a nine-pound weight break from two older longshots.
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, July 12 at Happy Valley.
Purses for four Hong Kong Group 1 races will be higher for the 2017-18 season, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced Monday.
Andrew Hawkins' Happy Valley selections and analysis for Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Thunder Snow led all the way to win the Group 1 Prix Jean Prat by 1 1/4 lengths over the previously unbeaten Trais Fluors at Chantilly on Sunday.
Ulysses, fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita last November, won the first Group 1 race of his career in a thrilling running of Saturday’s $647,500 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown Park, south of London.
Thunder Snow, the Godolphin colt who bucked just after the start and had to be pulled up in the Kentucky Derby, has found a sweet spot to win his first turf race of 2017.
