Paul Lally:
R1: 8-4-12-3
R2: 2-7-1-5
R3: 5-3-7-1
R4: 14-6-8-5
R5: 3-9-4-6
R6: 6-4-7-12
R7: 10-11-2-9
R8: 6-7-8-10
R9: 5-12-1-4
R10: 2-3-1-5
Best Bet: R10 N2 California Rad
Longshot: R4 N14 Kung Fu Tea
Play: R10 QQP 1-2-3
Tom Wood:
R1: 10-4-11-8
R2: 4-12-2-1
R3: 5-3-2-1
R4: 6-3-14-1
R5: 13-6-4-11
R6: 8-4-6-2
R7: 2-10-3-9
R8: 6-7-8-10
R9: 1-5-7-12
R10: 10-1-2-4
BEST: R8 N6 SERIOUS LIAISON (WIN)
There are eight fillies and six colts and geldings in the main body of the field for the $152,680 Wellington Boot Stakes for 2-year-olds on Sunday at Wellington Racecourse in Australia.
Among those groups, there are two males with leading chances in Bourbon Flyer and Keith and two fillies who command respect in Sonnet Star and Tidal Impact.
The Wellington Boot is run at 5 1/2 furlongs and is the seventh race on an eight-race program that begins at 10:20 p.m. Eastern, or 7:20 p.m. Pacific, on Saturday.
The last time Joao Moreira rode California Rad was the last time California Rad won a race, and the race he won, on Jan. 1, was run under the same conditions as the featured 10th race Sunday at Sha Tin, a Class 2 handicap for horses rated 100-80 and carded at 1,200 meters.
Resistencia was the champion 2-year-old filly in Japan in 2019. She was second to Daring Tact in the Grade 1 Japanese 1000 Guineas last April and won her 2021 debut in the Grade 3 Hankyu Hai at seven furlongs on Feb. 28.
A winner of 4 of 8 starts, Resistencia has thrived at seven furlongs and a mile. Whether she can be equally as effective at six furlongs will be known in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo Racecourse.
Postponed a week because of extensive rain, the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes for 2-year-olds will be run Saturday at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Australia, with the same principal runners from the original lineup.
Profiteer, second by a head to Anamoe in the Group 2 Todman Stakes at six furlongs at Royal Randwick Racecourse on March 6, remains the 5-2 favorite, with Stay Inside (7-2) and the filly Four Moves Ahead (5-1) gaining support. Anamoe is a 16-1 outsider in the field of 15.
Yaupon failed his first Grade 1 test and has traveled a long way to be administered his second.
Eighth as the 13-10 favorite Nov. 7 in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Yaupon makes his first start since that defeat Saturday at Meydan Racecourse in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Dubai Golden Shaheen.
A little more than a week after an expected win in Sydney, Petronius is being sent to the Australian countryside for a start in the richest race of his career in Friday’s $114,650 Muswellbrook Gold Cup at Muswellbrook Racecourse.
Trained by Gary and John Moore, Petronius ended a five-race losing streak with a half-length win in a handicap at seven furlongs as the even-money favorite on the infield Kensington course at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on March 17.
Dubai World Cup favorite Mystic Guide drew post 6, a good spot, when post positions were drawn Wednesday for the Group 1 races on Saturday’s Dubai World Cup card.
Final entries for Saturday’s races were taken Monday, when posts for the Group 2 races on the card were assigned, but the World Cup, the Sheema Classic, the Dubai Turf, the Golden Shaheen, and the Al Quoz Sprint were part of a draw ceremony Wednesday.
A win on a soft turf course at Gosford Racecourse in Australia on Feb. 24 may provide vital experience for the 4-year-old gelding Savvy Valentino in a handicap at 1 1/2 miles on the Kensington course at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Thursday.
The turf course on the Kensington course was listed as heavy on Tuesday, with conditions unlikely to significantly improve. Torrential rain in and around Sydney, Australia, has led to widespread flooding and made international news. Several race programs in Australia have been canceled because of excessive rain in the last week.
