Race 1: #1 Ace Talent, #3 Mr Good Vibes, #4 Happy Tango, #10 Great Days
Race 2: #3 Beauty Infinity, #4 Nicconi County, #1 Celestial Colours, #8 Happy Fat Cat
Race 3: #2 Medic Elite, #11 Mighty Star, #6 Happy Jai Jai, #1 Beau Gosse
Race 4: #3 Copartner Prance, #7 Lapras, #9 Hayday, #5 Great Achiever
Race 5: #8 Super Eagle, #2 Ernest Feeling, #7 Multidarling, #5 Kilindini
Race 6: #1 Raging Blizzard, #2 Sugar Sugar, #9 Kyrus Dragon, #3 Watch Buddy

Bidding to add to an impressive collection of Hong Kong feature wins this season, James McDonald is wary of emerging threats to Lucky Sweynesse as the world’s top-rated sprinter attempts to win a second successive HK$13 million Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (10 March).

SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Sunday, March 10, 2024) 

The $165,400 Canberra Cup at Canberra Racecourse in Australia on Saturday evening is run at 1 1/4 miles, the perfect distance for a showdown between two principal runners in the field of 11 – Fawkner Park and So United.

Fawkner Park, the 3-1 favorite in early betting on Friday, won three consecutive races at distances ranging from 7 1/2 furlongs to 1 1/2 miles from late May to early July last year.

For only the second time in his 13-race career, the brilliant Australian sprinter Think About It will start after a loss in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Friday night.

A winner of 11 of 13 starts, including the $12.8 million Everest Stakes last October, Think About It will be an odds-on favorite to win the $496,300 Canterbury Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs.

SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Sunday, March 10, 2024) 

The presence of the prolific winner Jimmysstar in Thursday’s Group 3 Newcastle Stakes at Newcastle Racecourse threatens to make the seven-furlong stakes a lopsided affair.

Jimmysstar, a winner of 5 of 7 starts, was the even-money favorite in a field of 15 as of Wednesday morning.

Golden Sixty completed his most significant piece of trackwork for a long time this morning (Tuesday, 5 March) at Sha Tin as trainer Francis Lui hopes for a fairytale finish to his charge’s career in next month’s HK$22 million G1 FWD Champions Mile (1600m).

“He galloped this morning. It was his first gallop, I think he’s ok – I saw him pass around,” Lui said. “He’s the same at home – a happy horse.”

Paul Lally:

R1 3-1-10-12
R2 4-1-2-3
R3 10-4-2-7
R4 2-1-5-6
R5 7-4-8-9
R6 1-8-6-9
R7 5-1-2-9
R8 3-4-9-10
R9 3-7-10-1

Best Bet R6 N1 Solar Partner
Longshot R7 N5 California Deeply
Play Race5 QQP 4 7 8

Mark McNamara:

R1 - 1.10.3.11
R2 - 4.3.2.1
R3 - 5.3.4.10
R4 - 3.6.2.1
R5 - 7.4.1.8
R6 - 1.9.4.6
R7 - 9.1.2.4
R8 - 8.3.6.4
R9 - 11.1.3.7

HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS
(Wednesday, March 06, 2024)