Le Romain is safe in Saturday’s Group 1 Doncaster Mile at Royal Randwick racecourse in Australia.
Winx, Australia’s top-rated horse, is not part of the field for the $2.29 million Doncaster Mile, which is billed as the world’s richest one-mile handicap. Winx is scheduled to run in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on April 8.
In her absence, the Doncaster Mile on turf has a competitive field of 20, led by Le Romain, Palentino, and Happy Clapper.
From Auckland, New Zealand, to Sydney, Australia, Gingernuts has been unbeatable since late January.
A gelding who managed one win in his first four starts, Gingernuts has won four consecutive races, a streak that will make him the favorite in Saturday’s Group 1 Australian Derby at Royal Randwick Racecourse.
The Championships analysis - April 1, 2017
By David Haslett
The Championships kicks off Saturday in Sydney and Australia’s top horses will compete for a share of $20.2 million AUD ($15.4 million) in prizes. While next weekend’s G1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes will see Winx, Longines’ equal best ranked racehorse internationally, aim for her 17th straight win, Saturday boasts four G1 races.
The Inglis Sires’ – Race 6
Brett Davis - Selections
R1 - 6-1-8-7
R2 - 6-8-4-10
R3 - 5-4-6-2
R4 - 11-9-5-3
R5 - 3-4-2-1
R6 - 8-4-11-9
R7 - 7-6-9-4
R8 - 12-9-8-3
Best - R8 n12 Cheer Win
Longshot - R7 n6 Hero Look
Best Play - R8 Q/QP 8,9,12
Paul Lally:
R1 6-3-4-9
R2 1-4-6-10
R3 3-1-4-5
R4 9-3-2-10
R5 3-2-4-5
R6 4-12-8-3
R7 7-9-11-4
R8 2-12-4-3
Best Bet R3 N3 Sunny Orient
Longshot R6 N12 Silver Spun
Best Play Race6 QQP 4-8-12
Trump may be on the verge of a win.
In Wednesday’s East Point Handicap at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong, Trump, an 8-year-old gelding, is part of a field of 12 in a six-furlong turf race. An Australian-bred, Trump was second in a lower-class race at Happy Valley on March 8 for horses with handicap ratings ranging from 40 to 60.
The East Point Handicap is for horses rated 60 to 80. Trump has a handicap rating of 62 and has been assigned 119 pounds, 14 pounds less than highweight Peace N Prosperity, who has a rating of 76.
Seiun Kosei won the first graded stakes of his career, and sixth race overall, in Sunday’s Grade 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at six furlongs on turf at Chuyko Racecourse in Japan.
The $1.733 million race was the first Grade 1 turf race of the year in Japan.
Seiun Kosei (7-1) closed from fourth with a wide rally to win by 1 1/4 lengths over Let’s Go Donki in the field of 18. Let’s Go Donki, the winner of the Japanese 1000 Guineas in 2015, was the 4-1 second choice and finished a neck in front of Red Falx, the 5-2 favorite who won the Grade 1 Sprinters’ Stakes last fall.
SHA TIN SELECTIONS
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Brett Davis - Selections
Race 1: - 1-7-8-5
Race 2: 14-2-4-12
Race 3: 11-12-1-2
Race 4: 12-3-1-6
Race 5: 5-7-6-11
Race 6: 10-2-4-6
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Jack Hobbs’s 4-year-old season began last April with a cracked pelvis suffered in the running of the Jockey Club Stakes at Newmarket. His 5-year-old campaign got off to a much more auspicious beginning Saturday night at Meydan Racecourse, where Jack Hobbs decisively won the Group 1, $6 million Sheema Classic.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – All week in Dubai, the outcome of the $10 million World Cup felt preordained: The great horse Arrogate could not lose.
Then the starting gate clanged open, and there was no way Arrogate could win.
