SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016)
Brett Davis - Selections
R1 - 8/4/5/11/3
R2 - 2/7/5/4/9
R3 - 12/8/5/7/3
R4 - 3/1/8/10/11
R5 - 3/5/2/8/7
R6 - 4/5/3/6/8
R7 - 2/7/12/9/1
R8 - 9/5/3/6/8
Best - R4 n3 Shining Champion Had excuses first up and lookks ready to atone
2nd Best - R7 n2 Hang's Decision
Longshot - R6 n3 Green Dispatch
Best Play - Trio R6 3,4,5,6
Paul Lally – Selection
Ambitious Champion, a Group 3 winner in Hong Kong in April, will start for the first time in the 2016-17 Hong Kong Season in Wednesday’s $225,652 Wistaria Handicap at about a mile on turf at Happy Valley Racecourse.
Ambitious Champion, a 7-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding, is part of a competitive field of 12 for the final race on an eight-race program that begins at 7:15 a.m. Eastern.
Brett Davis' Selections
R1 - 7/5/6/10/6
R2 - 8/3/1/6/4
R3 - 7/14/1/12/10
R4 - 8/7/12/10/5
R5 - 9/11/2/6/1
R6 - 5/14/10/11/1
R7 - 11/8/3/1/6
R8 - 12/6/4/10/2
R9 - 13/14/4/2/5
R10 - 5/13/2/7/6
Best - R5 n9 I'm The Won For U Looks ready now after a fantastic run first up
2nd Best - R8 n12 Lotus Breeze
Longshot - R6 n11 Power Dragon
Best Play - R5 Tce 9 Banker 1,2,6,11
Paul Lally's Selections
Brave Anna and Roly Poly gave Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien a sweep of the exacta in Saturday’s $234,000 Cheveley Park Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Newmarket, England, at the expense of the previously unbeaten Lady Aurelia, who finished third.
For her third and final transatlantic trip of 2016, the Kentucky-based filly Lady Aurelia will start in Saturday’s $234,000 Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse, a race that offers a different test. The Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes is run at six furlongs for 2-year-old fillies over a course with a notable uphill finish.
In 2015, Consort finished third in the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, his only appearance in a race at the highest level that season.
Earlier this year, Consort was eighth and fourth in consecutive starts in Group 1 races on the Hong Kong circuit. The losses were part of a winless six-race campaign for the 4-year-old gelding in his first season in Asia in 2015-16.
Brett Davis's selections
Race 1 - 9/2/3/1/4
Race 2 - 1/3/9/12/11
Race 3 - 3/2/5/11/1
Race 4 - 1/9/8/7/6
Race 5 - 5/3/2/11/10
Race 6 - 4/12/2/11/8
Race 7 - 2/3/4/1/9
Race 8 - 12/6/3/8/10
Best - Race 6, No. 4 Flying Tourbillion. Looks to get the perfect run behind the speed.
2nd Best - Race 3, No. 3 Victory Marvel
Longshot - Race 4, No. 7 Born To Race
Best Play - R6, Trio 4 Banker from 2,8,11,12