Paul Lally:
R1: 6-10-2-1
R2: 2-4-8-11
R3: 3-8-5-2
R4: 6-5-9-4
R5: 6-3-7-9
R6: 7-1-9-3
R7: 5-1-9-2
R8: 5-2-9-4
R9: 1-10-12-4
Best Bet: R2 N2 Comet Splendido
Longshot: R7 N5 Astrologer
Play: R5 QQP 3-6-7
Tom Wood:
R1: 6-4-2-1
R2: 2-4-8-7
R3: 7-3-8-9
R4: 7-9-8-4
R5: 6-7-3-9
R6: 9-1-7-2
R7: 1-9-6-7
R8: 2-5-9-4
R9: 1-5-11-3
In less than three months, Scarlet Oak has gone from a debut win in New Zealand to a Group 2 winner in Australia.
On Friday evening at Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane, Scarlet Oak will be favored to win her Group 1 debut in the $466,600 Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm Racecourse in her fifth start.
R1 6-9-3-5
R2 2-6-10-1
R3 4-5-7-1
R4 9-10-7-2
R5 8-9-3-12
R6 3-9-5-4
R7 11-10-1-6
R8 3-6-5-1
R9 3-11-6-4
Best Bet R7 N11 Chain Of Gold
Longshot R5 N8 Sight Supreme
Play R4 QQP 7-9-10
Mark McNamara:
R1 6.1.8.2
R2 5.6.4.3
R3 6.4.5.1
R4 7.10.9.3
R5 3.4.1.5
R6 3.4.2.11
R7 10.11.3.4
R8 3.9.12.1
R9 3.4.1.11
Best Bet R4 N7 So Treasure
Longshot R3 N6 Divine Shining
Play R3 Q/QP 4.5.6
Tom Wood:
Australia, Hong Kong or Japan, it does not matter. Romantic Warrior has won Group 1 or Grade 1 races in those countries in a five-race winning streak since October.
On Sunday, Romantic Warrior won the Grade 1 Yasuda Kinen Stakes at a mile on turf at Tokyo Racecourse in his first start in Japan. With the win, Romantic Warrior earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 2.
Look de Vega on Sunday morning was a twice-started colt yet to run in a race of any consequence. By Sunday afternoon he was a Group 1 winner after winning the Prix du Jockey Club, the French Derby, at Chantilly Racecourse.
Look de Vega’s brief career and lack of high-class racing were of no consequence: The colt did everything right, looked like a winner a long way from home, and was much the best posting a two-length victory in a 14-runner field.
Aidan O’Brien trains for the global powerhouse Coolmore, for whom a primary focus is standing stallions, and thus among O’Brien’s responsibilities is training racehorses to win stallion-making races and to promote their talent and achievement. Sometimes the praise, understandably, has seemed excessive, and after champion 2-year-old City of Troy finished ninth of 11 in the 2000 Guineas, his 3-year-old debut, O’Brien continued insisting the colt was a star.
The hype is real.
A four-race winning streak is nothing new for Romantic Warrior, the Hong Kong-based gelding who will be favored to win his Japanese debut at Tokyo Racecourse in Sunday’s Grade 1 Yasuda Kinen Stakes at a mile.
Earlier in his career, Romantic Warrior reeled off five consecutive wins in Hong Kong in 2021 and 2022, finished fourth, and then won four consecutive starts later in 2022.
