Romantic Warrior is two years younger than Golden Sixty and has made 12 starts to Golden Sixty’s 28. His legs are younger and fresher and the 2000-meter distance of Sunday’s Hong Kong Gold Cup at Sha Tin Race Course hits Romantic Warrior’s sweet spot.
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With only five races of experience, the Australian gelding Golden Breeze has found his niche in five-furlong races.
Golden Breeze won his fourth career start in a maiden race at five furlongs at Port Macquarie on Oct. 7 and overcame a slow start to be second in his debut against winners at that distance on Feb. 5 in his only subsequent appearance.
Fittingly, Golden Breeze runs in a five-furlong handicap at Port Macquarie on Sunday evening. The small venue on the Australian East Coast is home to trainer Margaret de Gonneville’s stable.
In 2022, Japan-based horses won four undercard stakes on the Saudi Cup card. In 2023, four Japanese horses, led by gate-to-wire winner Panthalassa, finished among the top five home in the $20 million Saudi Cup at King Abdulaziz Racecourse.
Only Country Grammer, second for the second year in a row in the world’s richest race, broke up a Japanese sweep. Coming late and wide under Frankie Dettori, Country Grammer was going best the final furlong but fell just short of Panthalassa, a 6-year-old racing on dirt for just the second time while making his 25th start.
Elite Power’s winning streak began last June in a Churchill Downs maiden race. It grew to six on Saturday in Saudi Arabia, where he followed up on his Breeders’ Cup Sprint win in November with a powerhouse victory in the $1.5 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint at King Abdulaziz Racecourse.
Settling well off the pace down the backstretch and into the turn, Elite Power revved up midway around the bend, came with a withering wide run into the homestretch, hit the front at the 300-meter mark, and cruised to a 3 1/4-length victory over a very good horse, Gunite.
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Ezekeil, the 4-year-old Australian gelding, is specializing in starts in lucrative restricted races this year.
After winning a rich sales progeny race, the $349,500 Magic Millions Country Cup at Gold Coast Racecourse on Jan. 14, Ezekeil will have his second start of the year in the $100,900 Country Championship qualifier at Tamworth Racecourse on Saturday evening.
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Gold Trip and Emissary, the first two finishers of the Group 1 Melbourne Cup in Australia in November, are expected to dominate the Group 2 Peter Young Stakes at Sandown Racecourse in Melbourne on Friday evening, the first starts of the year for the geldings.
Gold Trip won the $4.96 million Melbourne Cup in a 20-1 upset by two lengths over Emissary, who was 25-1. Both runners closed from off the pace in the field of 22.
Rarely has the Hong Kong superstar Golden Sixty been knocked off his pedestal. And the two times he has gone down, the great gelding righted himself and climbed right back to the top.
It happened last season, when Golden Sixty came back from two defeats with a pair of emphatic Group 1 victories to close his campaign. And it happened last month, when Golden Sixty dominated heirs to his crown Romantic Warrior and California Spangle after taking a no-excuses loss to California Spangle in the Hong Kong Mile.
Elite Power won the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in his last start and might not even be the best American horse in the $1.5 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint on Saturday at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Saudi Arabia.
Gunite didn’t quite stay a two-turn mile while finishing a creditable fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, and that’s the colt’s only loss in his last four starts. A Grade 1 winner at age 2, Gunite improved throughout his 3-year-old season and is a better horse now than when top-class Jack Christopher beat him in the Grade 1 Allen Jerkens last summer at Saratoga.