SHA TIN SELECTIONS
(Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016)
RACE 1: #4 Diamond Bit, #9 Sea Warrior, #1 Bear Chum, #2 Acclaimed Light
RACE 2: #2 Prince Falcon, #12 Lean Journey, #14 Starry Starlies, #13 Lucky Place
RACE 3: #7 Sight Seeing, #5 Game Of Fun, #9 Soaring Wyvern, #1 Kingston Jumbo
RACE 4: #2 Snow Slider, #1 Super Man, #11 Rewarding Flyer, #14 Wingold
RACE 5: #6 Precisioncraftsman, #11 Dragon Harmony, #3 Diamond Friends, #5 Master Gold
Spatial and Sobetsu, maiden race winners at Newmarket Racecourse in recent months, will make their first starts in stakes amidst high expectations in Friday’s $680,744 Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket.
Sobetsu, trained by Charlie Appleby, and Spatial, trained by Michael Stoute, were 5-2 and 10-3 with British bookmakers on Wednesday for the Fillies’ Mile, which drew a field of eight. Both were beaten in their first start, but rebounded to win maiden races.
Sobetsu won a maiden race at a mile by 10 lengths on Sept. 17. Spatial won a seven-furlong maiden race on Aug. 26.
Andrew Le Juene:
R1: 5-9-11-6
R2: 8-2-4-11
R3:6-1-10-2
R4:8-4-12-9
R5: 2-4-7-9
R6: 3-7-5-1
R7: 3-9-10-12
R8: 12-9-3-1
Best Bet: R5 N2 Royal Partner
Long Shot: R1 N9 Enjoy The Game
Play: Q/QP R5: 2-4-7
Paul Lally:
R1: 7-11-6-5
R2: 3-2-8-7
R3: 2-1-4-6
R4: 7-9-8-1
R5: 2-4-11-1
R6: 1-5-7-4
R7: 9-12-3-10
R8: 12-9-6-3
Best bet R3 N2 Why Why
Longshot R4 N9 Octal Luck
Two six-furlong turf handicaps are the leading races on an eight-race program Wednesday at Happy Valley Racecourse in Hong Kong.
First post is 7:15 a.m. Eastern.
E-Super, a 5-year-old Australian-bred gelding, is the 133-pound topweight for the first division, the third race on the program. E-Super is on a two-race winning streak, having won six-furlong handicaps in January and February at Happy Valley.
Red Falx won his third consecutive race, and first in a Grade 1, in Sunday’s $1,890,292 Sprinters’ Stakes at Nakayama Racecourse in Japan.
The Sprinters’ Stakes is part of the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program, offering a fees paid berth for the winner to the BC Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5. There is no immediate indication that Red Falx will be sent to California.
Limato won his second Group 1 sprint of the European season in Sunday’s $336,930 Prix de la Foret at seven furlongs at Chantilly Racecourse in France, and is expected to race at Santa Anita on the Breeders’ Cup program on Nov. 5.
Limato is the future-book favorite with British bookmakers for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, but could also be considered for the BC Mile, trainer Henry Candy said after the Prix de la Foret.
The Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Found, runner-up in five straight Group 1 races this year, broke through in tremendous fashion Sunday at Chantilly, leading an amazing sweep of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe’s top three placings by trainer Aidan O’Brien.
Found beat Highland Reel by 1 3/4 lengths with Order of St George another 1 1/2 lengths back in third. For all the remarkable accomplishments in O’Brien’s epic career, this might have been the best.
“It’s unbelievable,” O’Brien said. “I’m absolutely delighted.”
