HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS

(Sunday, October 28, 2018)

RACE 1: #10 Clement Legend, #7 Rock The Tree, #6 The Joy Of Giving, #4 Amazing Gold

RACE 2: #4 Universal Go Go, #3 Ishvara, #1 Ten Flames, #6 Marvel Joy

RACE 3: #12 Diamond Legend, #7 Victorious Leader, #10 Good Choice Ahead, #8 Oscar Magic

RACE 4: #11 Chaparral Star, #5 You Have My Word, #7 True Grit, #2 Enjoy Life

Within her astonishing 28-race winning streak, Winx has equaled a remarkable record in Australian racing, winning the Group 1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne each October the last three years.

No horse has attempted to win a fourth Cox Plate. Kingston Town, the only other three-time winner, won the Cox Plate from 1980-82, and had his final start in Australia in late 1982.

The $3.53 million Cox Plate, run at 1 1/2 miles, is Australia’s leading weight-for-age race, and Winx is Australia’s reigning Horse of the Year for a record-equaling third time.

HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS

(Wednesday, October 24)

Brett Davis

R1: 5-2-1-11

R2: 8-3-2-5

R3: 1-8-7-3

R4: 2-5-7-11

R5: 2-1-5-9

R6: 11-6-2-3

R7: 11-1-12-10

R8: 4-3-10-12

Best Bet - R5: #2 Beaut Beaut  

Longshot – R1: #5 Triumphant Light

Best Play – R3: Quin   1/ 7,8

Paul Lally

R1: 3-2-1-10

R2: 2-1-5-7

R3: 8-1-4-3

R4 2-12-11-3

R5: 1-2-9-4

R6: 6-3-2-9

R7: 12-1-8-11

Perfect Glory has earned his four-race unbeaten streak. After winning his first three starts in Australia, Perfect Glory won his debut in Hong Kong on Oct. 10, recording an 18-1 upset in a six-furlong handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse.

First-time starters in Hong Kong are infrequent winners. The horses come from vastly different racing circuits, such as Australia, New Zealand, or Europe, and are often racing at night for the first time against tough competition.

HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS
(Wednesday October 24, 2018)

Beauty Generation and Hot King Prawn won the co-featured Group 2 races Sunday at Sha Tin, though victory by the former might have stronger major-race implications than the success of the latter.

Best Solution won his fourth consecutive group stakes in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup outside of Melbourne, Australia on Friday to join the list of contenders for the famous Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Nov. 6.

The lightly raced colt Fierement won his first graded stakes in Sunday’s Grade 1 Japanese St. Leger at Kyoto Racecourse in his fourth start. He established a record for winning the third leg of Japan’s Triple Crown with the least experience.

Fierement, ridden by Christope Lemaire, finished a nose in front of 5-2 second choice Etario, who was fourth in the Japanese Derby in May.

Fierement was a 13-1 chance in the field of 18.

SHA TIN SELECTIONS

(Sunday, October 21)

Brett Davis 

R1: 6-9-1-5

R2: 5-1-4-3

R3: 3-10-4-5

R4: 4-5-6-10

R5: 6-1-4-8

R6: 3-11-4-9

R7: 6-1-2-3

R8: 1-2-12-10

R9: 9-1-12-5

R10: 11-3-2-4

Best Bet – R3: #3 Complacency  

Longshot – R2: #4 Cashin Minister

Best Play – R3: Trio 3/ 4,5,10,11

Paul Lally

R1: 9-1-6-5

R2: 1-10-3-5

R3: 10-14-3-5

R4: 5-4-1-10

R5: 8-6-1-2

R6: 11-5-3-9

R7: 1-6-2-3

Roaring Lion overcame a soft turf course apparently not to his liking to win his fourth consecutive Group 1 race in Saturday’s $1,503,125 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at a mile at Ascot Racecourse in England.

The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes may have been Roaring Lion’s final start in Europe. Trainer John Gosden suggested after the race that Roaring Lion will go to stud in 2019.

“He probably goes to stud now and what a class horse he is,” Gosden said. “He has got better and stronger through the year, and has now won a top mile race on ground he probably loathed.”