Sight Success, one of three entrants trained by John Size, tries for a third straight win when he faces nine foes in the featured Bruntsfield Handicap on Wednesday at Happy Valley.
Last Hong Kong racing season, Sight Success missed by a nose carrying 130 pounds in a Class 3 handicap run over 1,200 meters at Happy Valley, and that is the formidable weight assignment he’ll try to carry to victory in the last of eight races, a Class 2 handicap at 1,200 meters.
No one is going to beat Golden Sixty in a one-mile Hong Kong race if the gelding is going to run like he did Sunday at Sha Tin. Making his first start since April 25, Golden Sixty ran his last 400 meters just about as fast as is possible for a Thoroughbred, landing the Group 2, $610,000 Jockey Club Mile by one length.
Paul Lally:
R1 13-12-8-10
R2 4-9-1-3
R3 4-8-2-1
R4 9-8-6-5
R5 6-14-7-3
R6 2-9-3-8
R7 1-5-2-4
R8 1-4-2-3
R9 2-3-5-10
R10 6-9-3-1
Best Bet R10 N6 California Spangle
Longshot R1 N13 Chiu Chow Brother
Play Race10 QQP 3-6-9
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Andrew Le Jeune:
R1: 8-1-12-10
R2: 4-9-11-14
Gran Alegria enters the final race of her career, Sunday’s Mile Championship at Hanshin, in a novel situation. The champion 5-year-old mare carries her first two-race losing streak into the Group 1, $2.36 million Championship Mile, run around a right-handed bend Gran Alegria knows well.
In April 2019, she won the Oka Sho, the Japanese 1000 Guineas, over 1,600 meters at Hanshin, and a year ago she beat Indy Champ by three-quarters of a length in this very race.
Fourteen. That’s the number for Golden Sixty, who tries to win his 15th straight race when he makes his 2021-22 Hong Kong season debut Sunday at Sha Tin. The 5-year-old gelding glows brightest in Hong Kong’s constellation of racehorses, the jurisdiction’s reigning Horse of the Year, but is he more than a regional sensation? Maybe, maybe not, but we likely won’t learn much more about Golden Sixty from the Group 2, $610,000 Jockey Club Mile, where he will be heavily favored to defeat six rivals in a prep for the Group 1 Hong Kong Mile next month.
R1 3-2-7-10
R2 3-4-6-8
R3 3-1-4-6
R4 10-6-8-2
R5 4-1-5-10
R6 9-1-2-11
R7 9-7-2-11
R8 5-2-1-3
R9 2-5-10-11
Best Bet R9 N2 Fa Fa
Longshot R3 N3 Universal Go Go
Play R8 QQP 1-2-5
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Savaquin, a closer with no early speed, needs pace help to win races, and the presence of his John Size-trained stablemate Red Desert could help ensure he gets it in the featured seventh race Wednesday at Happy Valley.
