Werther and Blazing Speed are back for Sunday's $1,283,416 Champions and Chater Cup at 1 1/2 miles on turf, the final Group 1 race of the 2016-17 Hong Kong season.
It was not the eminently quotable Winston Churchill who first noted that “discretion is the better part of valor,” but that is the sentiment guiding the management of the excellent 3-year-old colt named after him.
Sha Tin selections and analysis for Sunday, May 28.
Hong Kong selections for Wednesday, May 24 at Happy Valley.
The soccer star Diego Costa and the racehorse Diego Kosta have been winners this spring. Diego Costa plays for Chelsea of London in the English Premier League. Chelsea was the champion of the 2016-17 season that ended Sunday. Half a world away, Diego Kosta is doing his part to keep up winning ways at Hong Kong’s racecourses. Diego Kosta won for the first time in his seventh start during the current Hong Kong season in a five-furlong handicap on turf at Happy Valley on May 3.
Happy Valley selections and analysis for Wednesday, May 24
Sha Tin selections for Sunday, May 21.
Reine Minoru was a 40-1 outsider when she won the Grade 1 Japanese 1000 Guineas at Hanshin Racecourse on April 9, beating a field that included Soul Stirring, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2016 in Japan.
A victory in a one-mile handicap on April 30 will make Eastern Express an attractive proposition for bettors in Sunday’s $224,883 Lotus Handicap at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
Ribchester is the deserving favorite Saturday at Newbury in the first major one-mile race of the European season, the Group 1 J.T. Lockinge Stakes.
