One might think, having seen his impressive victory in the Group 1 Prix Morny on Aug. 18, that Whistlejacket, a beast of a colt, rates as the best 2-year-old sprinter in Europe – but for the fact that the filly Babouche had handed him a 1 1/2-length defeat just eight days earlier in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes.
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Broadsiding has won four stakes in Australia since mid-April, while Traffic Warden has won two since early March.
As a pair, they give Godolphin Racing and trainer James Cummings a deep team in Friday’s Group 1 Golden Rose Stakes for Southern Hemisphere 3-year-olds at seven furlongs at Rosehill Gardens in Sydney, Australia.
By Declan Schuster
Hong Kong-trained runners return to the G1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) in Japan for the first time since 2018 on Sunday (29 September), when Victor The Winner and Mugen bid to join Silent Witness (2005) and Ultra Fantasy (2010) on the illustrious honour roll.
Former jockey Felix Coetzee partnered Hong Kong’s legendary galloper Silent Witness in each of his 29 starts, including his unmatched 17-race unbeaten streak at Sha Tin, which spanned from December, 2002 to April, 2005.
From one big-ticket race to another, I Wish I Win may have a lucrative schedule in coming weeks in Australia.
I Wish I Win is part of a field of 13 in Friday’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Melbourne, a six-furlong race with a purse of $1.37 million. The race is a prep for the $13.7 million Everest Stakes at six furlongs at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney on Oct. 19.
I Wish I Win was second in the 2023 Everest Stakes, the world’s richest sprint.
By Leo Schlink
Caspar Fownes and Hugh Bowman continued a flourishing partnership at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (25 September), dominating with a treble to maintain the duo’s stunning winning strike rate.
With the wins tonight of Sky Song, Noble Pursuit and Rocket Spade, Fownes and Bowman improved their combined winning strike rate this season to 45.45% with five victories from only 11 runners, as Bowman boosted his tally to eight wins – only three shy of Zac Purton’s 11.
William Barows, a Grade 2 stakes winner on dirt in Japan earlier this year, proved too tough to catch in Wednesday’s $470,132 Nippon TV Hai Stakes at Funabashi Racecourse in Tokyo, finishing a length in front of Breeders’ Cup Classic hopeful Ushba Tesoro.
Ushba Tesoro won the 2023 Nippon TV Hai.
Derma Sotogake, another potential runner in the BC Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 2, stalked William Barows to the final turn before fading to finish a well-beaten fifth in the dirt race at 1 1/8 miles.
By Declan Schuster
Gearing up for his second attempt at securing Group 1 glory in Japan, Victor The Winner got a first feel for Nakayama’s turf course on Wednesday morning (25 September) with jockey Joao Moreira in the plate for trainer Danny Shum.
Victor The Winner is one of two Hong Kong-trained runners readying for Sunday’s (29 September) G1 Sprinters Stakes (1200m) at Nakayama, a racetrack located in the Chiba Prefecture of the Greater Tokyo Area, while the other representative is Mugen, who exercised slowly alongside partner horse Island Surprise today.
Paul Lally
R1: 1-4-7-10
R2: 1-7-2-8
R3: 5-6-2-3
R4: 7-8-9-6
R5: 6-4-7-3
R6: 4-8-2-10
R7: 8-7-6-5
R8: 9-8-1-5
Best Bet: R7 N8 Mr Valiant
Longshot: R4 N7 Beautiful Win
Play: R3 QQP 2-5-6
Tom Wood:
R1: 2-4-7-1
R2: 1-7-10-2
R3: 5-8-1-10
R4: 8-7-6-4
R5: 4-6-3-1
R6: 4-8-3-5
R7: 2-6-5-8
R8: 10-1-3-7
BEST: R3 N5 NEBRASKAN (WIN)
VALUE: R8 N10 BITS SUPERSTAR (EW)
PLAY: R8 QQP 1,3,10
By Declan Schuster
Cody Mo is expecting to break new ground next Tuesday (1 October) by saddling his first runner in a Group race in Hong Kong when Magic Control contests the HK$4.2 million G3 National Day Cup Handicap (1000m) at Sha Tin.
Mo, 46, commenced his training career last season with 20 wins. He’s added a further two to his tally this term, while before being awarded a licence to train, Mo previously worked with Tony Cruz when the legendary figure had Silent Witness and Bullish Luck in his stable.