Excellent Proposal began his 2020-21 Hong Kong racing season with a victory in a 1,400-meter Class 3 handicap at Sha Tin, and the fact the gelding launches his 2021-22 campaign in a 1,400-meter Class 1 handicap, the featured seventh race Saturday at Sha Tin, shows the progress Excellent Proposal made last season.
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St Mark’s Basilica has won the Cartier award as European Horse of the Year for 2021, one of two Cartier Award winners and three awards for Ireland-based trainer Aidan O’Brien and the Coolmore operation for which he trains.
Coolmore and O’Brien’s second Cartier winner this year is Snowfall, named champion 3-year-old filly when the Cartier Awards were announced Wednesday in England.
Earlier this year, the former British-trained gelding Zaaki soared through the Australian older horse division, winning six stakes, including three Group 1 races.
Zaaki is trained by Annabel Neasham, who has another British import to follow in Top Ranked. Saturday, Top Ranked will have his Australia debut in the $733,500 The Hunter Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs at Newcastle Racecourse north of Sydney.
The 5-year-old Australian gelding Oamanikka was overmatched in a seven-furlong handicap on the undercard of the Melbourne Cup program at Flemington on Nov. 2.
A little more than a week later, Oamanikka is well suited to the conditions of the Snake Gully Cup at seven furlongs at Gundagai Racecourse on Friday.
Trained by Donna Scott, Oamanikka has won 5 of 13 starts. On Nov. 2, he finished ninth by eight lengths at 25-1 against a tougher class of runners than in his preceding races.
Paul Lally:
R1 1-4-5-3
R2 11-3-4-1
R3 2-1-10-3
R4 3-5-8-4
R5 1-4-2-7
R6 4-2-8-1
R7 8-3-7-12
R8 12-5-2-7
R9 8-2-4-9
Best Bet R8 N12 My Ecstatic
Longshot R9 N8 Sergeant Pepper
Play Race8 QQP 2-5-12
Mark McNamara:
R1 11.1.4.3
R2 11.3.4.7
R3 3.2.10.1
R4 4.8.5.1
R5 1.4.3.7
R6 6.1.8.2
R7 3.7.12.8
R8 9.4.1.3
R9 2.8.7.3
Best R3 N3 Joyful Win
Longshot R8 N9 Telecom Smart
Play R3 Q/QP 2.3.10
Nicolini Vito, the 4-year-old Australian-bred gelding, will have his third start following a layoff in a six-furlong handicap at Pakenham Racecourse on Thursday.
Conditions may be in his favor.
A winner of 2 of 7 starts, Nicolini Vito was third in his return from a layoff of nearly 10 months on Oct. 3 at Bendigo, closing with interest to lose by a length. In a six-furlong handicap on Oct. 22 at Moonee Valley, Nicolini Vito broke from the outside in a field of 11, failed to settle in the first half of the race, and finished sixth, beaten 2 1/2 lengths.
It’s verging on the language of epic poetry, this listing of the main combatants in the featured sixth race Wednesday at Happy Valley, where Sparkling Dragon meets Drops of God in a 1,200-meter Class 2 handicap for horses rated 100-80.
Sparkling Dragon has the experience and the proven ability in Happy Valley races at this class level and distance; Drops of God brings upside and clear talent but must transfer his Sha Tin form to Happy Valley, avoid getting drawn into a pace battle, and prove he can compete above Class 3.
Just Jake had a two-race winning streak end with a 10th-place finish in a handicap at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia on Oct. 22.
The loss was not a surprise. Just Jake was racing against a better class of runners, was a 16-1 outsider, and had trouble in the final furlong.
A 5-year-old gelding, Just Jake faces a slightly easier field in a handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs at Bendigo Racecourse on Wednesday. This race does not have a strong of a field.