Race 1: #4 Urban Triumph, #1 Fairy Horse, #3 Country Dancer, #10 Rattan World
Race 2: #10 The Good Deal, #8 Ho Ho Star, #3 Winning Heart, #1 Joyful Life
Race 3: #5 Speedy Chariot, #1 Super Elite, #6 Super Eagle, #4 Same To You
Race 4: #1 Galvanic, #2 Northern Beast, #6 Kimberley, #10 Prince Alex
Race 5: #4 Storming Dragon, #3 Lean Master, #10 Dragon Air Force, #2 Mighty Commander
Race 6: #8 Yee Cheong Spirit, #5 Giant Leap, #7 Happy Trio, #1 Gallant Valour

Buckaroo, the British-bred four-time stakes winner, has had a methodical preparation for Monday’s Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse in Australia since he resumed racing after a four-month break in August.

After an eighth-place finish in the Group 1 Winx Stakes at seven furlongs on Aug. 24, a distance shorter than his best trip, Buckaroo has started in increasingly longer races leading to the $5.61 million Melbourne Cup at two miles.

By Leo Schlink

Tony Cruz will bid for a seventh victory in the HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (3 November) when the dual Hong Kong champion trainer accelerates the LONGINES Hong Kong International Races (HKIR) campaigns of Beauty Joy, Five G Patch and La City Blanche.

Cruz first claimed the Ladies’ Purse in 1976 as a jockey on Crossfire and has since added five other victories as a trainer with Russian Pearl (2004), Willie Detroy (2005), Hello Pretty (2006), Time Warp (2018) and Furore (2020).

Paul Lally: 
R1 11-2-3-1 
R2 8-1-7-2 
R3 1-2-5-13 
R4 4-8-2-5 
R5 4-10-8-5 
R6 6-2-5-8 
R7 4-3-7-13 
R8 6-1-10-2 
R9 9-2-8-11 
R10 10-1-11-14 
Best Bet R6 N6 Mr Energia 
Longshot R8 N6 Alsonso 
Play R3 1-2-5 

Ascoli Piceno, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2023 in Japan, will start in Australia for the first time in the $6.57 million Golden Eagle Stakes at 7 1/2 furlongs at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Australia, on Friday night.

Should she win, the victory will be well-deserved. Ascoli Piceno drew post 17 in a field of 20. At Rosehill Gardens, races at that distance are around one turn, beginning from a backstretch chute with a lengthy run to the turn. The stretch covers two furlongs.

By Michael Wrona, International Racing Expert

By Declan Schuster

Trainer Caspar Fownes will cast a menacing Karma into uncharted territory on Sunday (3 November) when the sizeable chestnut – outclassed on paper but in career-best form – contests the HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin.

By Leo Schlink

Laying down a marker for the HK$4.2 million G3 Sa Sa Ladies’ Purse Handicap (1800m) at Sha Tin on Sunday (3 November), Caspar Fownes fired in a Happy Valley treble on Wednesday night (30 October) to move into second place on the Hong Kong trainers’ championship.

Sha Tin Selections
(Sunday, November 03, 2024)