SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Monday, October 1, 2018)
RACE 1: #6 Romantic Chef, #9 Bumble Baby, #2 Let’s Come Back, #3 Strathallan
RACE 2: #1 Good Days, #12 Indigenous Star, #2 Play It, #8 Full Of Chances
RACE 3: #3 Cordyceps, #10 Very Sweet Orange, #6 Complacency, #4 Royal Mojito
RACE 4: #10 Care Free Prince, #12 Shining On, #7 Golden Four, #2 Flying Quest
RACE 5: #14 Aerohappiness, #12 Ultimate Glory, #6 Green Energy, #3 Tangmere
HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS
(Wednesday, September 26)
:: Hong Kong: Free PPs, picks, and analysis
Brett Davis
R1: 10-2-8-4
R2: 11-1-3-6
R3: 5-9-4-1
R4: 5-6-1-9
R5: 4-5-7-3
R6: 11-4-1-9
R7: 10-11-8-5
R8: 5-1-3-11
Best Bet – R8: #5 Alcari
Longshot – R5: #7 Happy Spirit
Best Play – R3: Q/Qp 4,5,9
Paul Lally
R1: 10-4-3-11
R2: 7-6-3-11
R3: 1-5-7-4
HAPPY VALLEY SELECTIONS
(Wednesday, September 26, 2018)
RACE 1: #6 Multimax, #2 Perfect Choice, #9 Cour Valant, #10 Trendiful
RACE 2: #6 Top Ace, #1 Chiu Chow Kid, #3 Dutch Windmill, #8 Celebration
RACE 3: #5 Young Empire, #2 Navas, #6 Universal Go Go, #12 Raichu
RACE 4: #5 Country Star, #6 Naboo Star, #2 Winning Supreme, #4 Peace N Prosperity
RACE 5: #4 Red Warrior, #3 Rickfield, #5 Happy Life, #10 Amazing Satchmo
Red Warrior had a stern introduction to Hong Kong racing on Sept. 5, running wide throughout a minor handicap at Happy Valley before finishing fourth by 2 1/4 lengths.
The handicap was Red Warrior’s first start in eight months. The experience may help Red Warrior when the 3-year-old gelding starts in Wednesday’s $176,685 Hong Kong Country Club Challenge Cup at one mile, 50 yards at Happy Valley.
Red Warrior will be ridden for the first time by leading rider Zac Purton, who replaces Alberto Sanna, who does not have a mount in the field of 10.
SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Saturday, September 22)
:: Hong Kong: Free PPs, picks, and analysis
Brett Davis
R1: 6-1-3-8
R2: 4-12-3-6
R3: 7-5-11-1
R4: 9-1-3-5
R5: 1-3-7-5
R6: 2-7-11-8
R7: 6-4-1-5
R8: 10-5-8-4
R9: 4-11-6-2
R10: 5-4-2-14
Best Bet – R5: #1 Sam’s Love
Longshot – R2: #4 Massive Millennium
Best Play – R7: Q/Qp 4,6
Paul Lally
In the last five months, Citron Spirit has either run into a tough rival or had a difficult trip in sprint handicaps at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong.
Last April and May, Citron Spirit lost consecutive starts to the rapidly improving Rise High. On Sept. 2, opening day of the Hong Kong season, Citron Spirit encountered trouble and finished third, beaten a neck.
SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Saturday, September 22, 2018)
RACE 1: #1 Dashing Gainer, #6 Flying Godspell, #4 Great Joy, #5 Just Not Listening
RACE 2: #5 Rookie Star, #8 Snowhooves, #12 Corre Rapido, #3 Happy Sound
RACE 3: #5 Friends Of Nanjing, #6 Khaki, #1 Burst Away, #3 Looking Good
RACE 4: #2 General Dino, #3 Enjoy Life, #9 Enjoyable Success, #11 Le Panache
With his esteemed older stablemate Order of St George retired earlier this week, Flag of Honour stepped into the roll of leading stayer in the Aidan O’Brien barn with a dominant win Sunday at The Curragh in the Group 1 Irish St. Leger.
Flag of Honour is just a 3-year-old, as was Order of St George when he won the Irish St. Leger for the first time in 2015. The Irish St. Leger, unlike most St. Leger races, also is open to older horses.
Two of the better horses racing in Europe, Alpha Centauri and Saxon Warrior, were retired Sunday after sustaining injuries in Saturday races at Leopardstown in Ireland.
Alpha Centauri suffered a shocking defeat in the Matron Stakes, where she was an odds-on favorite, and came out of the race with a fracture in her right-front fetlock, according to overseas reports. Alpha Centauri took two obviously bad steps in deep stretch while trying to run down the victorious Laurens in the Matron.
The filly Kitesurf and colts Brundtland and Waldgeist won group stakes at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris on Sunday in what were likely prep races for the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at the famous track on Oct. 7.
The wins represented big afternoons for trainer Andre Fabre and Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin Racing. Kitesurf and Waldgeist are trained by Fabre. Kitesurf and Brundtland, who is trained by Charlie Appleby, are owned by Godolphin. Waldgeist races for Gestut Ammerland and Newsells Park.
