SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Tuesday, 1 October, 2019)

The five-time stakes winners Danon Smash and Tower of London can win the first Grade 1 race of their career in what looks to be a competitive running of the $2.2 million Sprinters’ Stakes at six furlongs on turf at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan on Sunday.

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Daahyeh earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 1 with a half-length win over stablemate Stylistique in Friday’s Group 2 Rockfel Stakes at Newmarket, England.

The first two finishers are trained by Roger Varian, who said the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf is strong possibility for Daahyeh, who has won 3 of 5 starts.

The 2-year-old colt Kameko was bred in the United States before going off to England to race, and perhaps he’ll come back again this fall.

Kameko as of Thursday was a solid antepost favorite for the Royal Lodge, a straight mile Saturday at Newmarket racecourse.

The Royal Lodge is a Group 2 that shares a card with two Group 1 races for 2-year-olds, the Middle Park and the Cheveley Park, but it’s a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In race linked to the BC Juvenile Turf and often produces starters in that race.

Brett Davis – Selections

R1 – 4-3-1-5
R2 – 4-5-6-3
R3 – 2-3-6-9
R4 – 3-1-8-6
R5 – 5-9-7-3
R6 – 6-2-11-12
R7– 5-9-7-4
R8– 5-2-9-3
R9 – 4-12-6-1

Best – R7 n5 Smart Leader
Longshot – R5 n5 Generous heart
Best Play – R6 Q/Qp 2,6,11

Paul Lally:

R1 4-1-5-6
R2 6-5-1-10
R3 6-5-8-3
R4 3-1-2-11
R5 7-2-9-3
R6 11-12-7-6
R7 4-5-2-12
R8 1-5-3-7
R9 6-12-1-2

Green Luck and Helene Charisma were separated by 1 1/2 lengths when first and second in a handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong on Sept. 11.

Green Luck was the 3-1 favorite in the race at about a mile and 50 yards and won for the second time in four starts. Helene Charisma was 35-1 and closed well on the rail to nearly end a four-race losing streak.

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HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS
(Wednesday, 25 September, 2019)

Brett Davis – Selections

R1 – 6-5-2-3

R2 – 2-3-8-14

R3 – 9-3-2-7

R4 – 1-2-4-3

R5 – 2-4-7-14

R6 – 3-9-1-7

R7 – 7-9-6-8

R8 – 13-10-3-2

R9 – 12-9-4-1

R10 – 5-2-1-4

Best – R9 N12   Shimmer And Shine  

Longshot – R3 N9 Villa Fionn

Best Play –R5   Quin   2/ 4,7

Paul Lally:

R1 6-1-5-9

R2 2-8-3-4

R3 14-9-7-3

R4 2-4-1-3

R5 4-2-8-1

R6 13-3-9-7

R7 1-6-5-9

R8 10-6-5-12

R9 3-4-6-9

R10 1-2-13-5

Harmony Victory concluded his 2018-19 Hong Kong campaign with a stirring win in a Class 1 handicap at Sha Tin and begins the 2019-20 season taking a step down to a Class 2 in the featured eighth race on a rare Saturday card at Sha Tin.

But the nature of the Hong Kong handicap system means Harmony Victory actually has a tall task in front of him in the Saturday feature.

Betfair Australia has stopped allowing its customers the ability to offer wagers on races held by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the company said on Friday.

The decision by Betfair Australia to take down markets on Hong Kong’s races came 16 days after the HKJC sent a “cease and desist” letter to the company. The HKJC said in the letter that it had never granted approval to the company to offer the bets and that it considered exchange wagering on its product “intrinsically at odds with the principles of the sport.”