Paul Lally:
R1 1-2-3-8
R2 5-8-6-9
R3 5-1-4-8
R4 3-10-2-7
R5 6-8-9-2
R6 10-4-6-3
R7 2-4-10-7
R8 2-8-6-9
Best Bet R5 N6 Inno Legend
Longshot R3 N5 Prance Dragon
Play R3 QQP 1-4-5
Andrew Le Jeune:
R1: 2-1-4-8
R2: 8-5-7-6
R3: 8-1-4-9
R4: 4-10-7-3
R5: 2-5-6-9
R6: 3-8-4-10
R7: 6-2-4-10
R8: 8-6-2-7
Best: R2 N8 Travel Glory
Each/way: R7 N6 Sunshine Supreme
Frankie Lor’s seven winners at this early stage of the Hong Kong racing season ties him for third among trainers, and Lor looks like he can add to that total on the Wednesday, Oct. 13, card at Happy Valley.
Lor has contenders in all three Class 3 handicaps that close the eight-race Wednesday program. The handicaps all are for horses rated 80-60; races 6 and 7 are carded for 1,200 meters, race 8 over 1,650 meters.
The Australian filly Barb Raider has developed rapidly in the last two months.
Barb Raider lost her first two starts, both in August, before recording two impressive wins in September. She is among the leading candidates for Wednesday’s Group 1 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne.
Too Much Class, the 4-year-old Australian-bred filly, has won three races, which equals the number of trainers she has had in her 12-race career.
Too Much Class won her debut in a one-mile handicap at Scone Racecourse on Sept. 24 in her first start for Jason Deamer. She was a two-time winner for the training partnership of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace last December and January.
None of the success has occurred at Newcastle, where Too Much Class starts in a one-mile handicap at Tuesday.
Paul Lally:
R1 2-5-3-7
R2 9-11-3-1
R3 3-8-6-7
R4 4-12-1-5
R5 7-9-11-3
R6 11-8-7-2
R7 5-3-9-12
R8 1-7-4-5
R9 13-6-1-12
R10 2-1-11-10
Best Bet R9 N13 California Cible
Longshot R5 N7 Swift Spirit
Play R9 QQP 1-6-13
Mark McNamara:
R1 – 3.7.6.5
R2 – 5.11.1.9
R3 – 3.12.6.1
R4 – 12.13.7.1
R5 – 5.14.1.4
R6 – 8.11.14.7
R7 – 13.9.3.8
R8 – 1.7.4.3
R9 – 6.2.13.12
The 4-year-old gelding Ang Pow has yet to be tested in his first two starts in Australia.
Ang Pow won his debut in a six-furlong maiden race at Tamworth by 4 1/4 lengths as the even-money favorite on Sept. 13 and closed well to win a six-furlong handicap by a little more than 2 1/2 lengths at Bathurst on Sept. 23.
Native Trail won his second Group 1 race of the season Saturday with a decisive score in the Dewhurst Stakes at England's Newmarket Racecourse and goes off for a winter rest as the favorite for the 2000 Guineas next spring.
Mr Brightside, a 4-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding, has compiled a five-racing winning streak since mid-July that gives him the role of favorite in Sunday’s $146,000 Bet With Mates Cup at Ballarat Racecourse in Australia.
Aside from the wins, there have been several consistencies through the streak. All the races have been between seven furlongs and about a mile. Craig Williams has ridden Mr Brightside each time, often taking the role of stalker.
The experience is vital for success in the Bet With Mates Cup, a listed-class race previously known as the Seymour Cup.
Sometimes Flying Bonus stops, and sometimes he does not. The confirmed front-runner’s chances in a given race are dependent on how much other speed shows. Flying Bonus shook loose on the lead and won a Class 3 handicap going 1,200 meters on the Sha Tin dirt track by more than two lengths in his first start this season and will try to take down a bigger prize in Sunday’s featured eighth race.
