Prime Impact will be a strong and deserving favorite to win his third consecutive race in a one-mile handicap at Newcastle Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening.
If Prime Impact runs to expectations, the 4-year-old gelding will be flying toward the front through the final furlong, the manner in which he won a maiden race at Taree on July 6 and a first-condition handicap at Gosford Racecourse on July 22.
With one glaring exception, the Irish-bred mare Awesome Wonder has been a consistent performer in Australia in the two months since returned to racing following a lengthy layoff.
In four starts, Awesome Wonder has finished first, second, and third, but also 10th. The relatively consistent form has made her a contender against males in a handicap at 1 3/8 miles at Warwick Farm Racecourse in Sydney on Tuesday evening.
The filly Dancemania was the most recent starter for Australian trainer Wayne Austin, winning a one-mile maiden race at Gosford Racecourse on July 22.
The same filly is the next runner for Austin’s small stable when she starts in a first-condition handicap at 7 1/2 furlongs at Hawkesbury Racecourse on Monday evening.
Austin has had four horses make 24 starts this year, with two wins from the team. Dancemania needed four races to beat maidens, and won in such a manner on July 22 that she was the 5-2 co-favorite as of Sunday morning for the race at Hawkesbury.
Burdekin has tested the patience of bettors in Australia this year, finishing second or third in five of his six starts.
The 6-year-old gelding was second by a neck in February, and second by a head in his latest start at Ballina July 27.
Burdekin deserves another chance, and may record his first win since November in a handicap at 5 1/2 furlongs at Lismore Racecourse on Sunday evening.
The racing world is big enough for two Kangaroo Courts.
In California, the 3-year-old Kangaroo Court was entered in Friday’s $175,000 Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar.
In Australia on Saturday evening, the 4-year-old gelding Kangaroo Court will start favored in the Forbes Cup at a mile at Forbes Racecourse.
The runners can have the same name since they were registered by regulatory bodies in different nations.
Al Husn aced her Group 1 debut winning the Nassau Stakes on Thursday at Goodwood Racecourse in England.
Al Husn pushed pace past pacesetting Above the Curve to capture the 1 1/4-mile Nassau by a half-length after stalking the pace under Jim Crowley. It was another half-length back in third to the race’s second choice and the 2022 Nassau winner, Nashwa, who loomed boldly without being asked by Hollie Doyle a quarter-mile out but failed to produce the required acceleration once she was set down.
Logically, Big Parade seems like a poor bet in the Group 2 Missile Stakes at six furlongs at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia on Friday evening.
Big Parade, the 8-5 favorite in early betting on Thursday, has not raced since a third by slightly less than two lengths in a Group 3 sprint stakes in April 2022. Big Parade is part of a solid field of 11 in the $196,200 Missile Stakes, the first graded stakes at Sydney tracks since the new season Australian began on Tuesday.
King of the Castle could only finish a close second in a lucrative one-mile handicap at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, last Saturday, but the experience gained by the 5-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding could be beneficial later this year.
On Thursday evening, King of the Castle starts in the Coffs Harbour Cup at a mile at Coffs Harbour Racecourse. The first two finishers in the Coffs Harbour Cup earn preliminary invitations to the $1.27 million Big Dance Stakes at a mile at Randwick in November.
They might as well have handed out paddles Wednesday at Goodwood Racecourse in England, but that did not stop Paddington from winning his fourth Group 1 in a row. Racing over a rain-soaked course, Paddington brushed aside an early bid from the multiple Group 1-winning filly Inspiral and still had enough in his tank to hold clear a late run from French raider Facteur Cheval in the Sussex Stakes.
Allhallowtide was second by a neck in his first start in more than three months on July 20, a prep race that should serve the gelding well in a one-mile handicap at Wyong Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening.
Allhallowtide is part of a field of 12 and figures to be a factor from slightly off the pace. Allhallowtide won a maiden race at a mile in his third career start in March at Kembla Grange Racecourse and was later sixth in a handicap in April before the brief rest.
