Andrew Hawkins' Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, July 16, 2017
Sha Tin selections and analysis for Sunday, July 16
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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.
Seven races into his Hong Kong career, Helene Charisma is winless with one second, by three-quarters of a length, in the Grade 3 Queen Mother Memorial Cup on April 30. The 4-year-old colt will have what is likely his final start of the season in Sunday’s $224,904 Pok Fu Lam Country Park Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Sha Tin Racecourse.
The 3-year-olds Barney Roy, Cliffs of Moher, and Eminent will race outside their age group for the first time in Saturday's Group 1 Coral-Eclipse Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Sandown Park, south of London.