What it might lack in quality of horses, Sunday’s races at Shatin are full of some very interesting twists and turns.
Firstly, despite what many thought before the season began, the John Size and Caspar Fownes stables have been pretty slow to rack up winners.
Fownes has saddled up heaps of seconds and with all of these looking at going one better.
But Size seems to be plodding along- seems to be as John Size is way too good a trainer to “plod” along.
Tomorrow, despite Douglas Whyte still sidelined through a suspension, don’t believe that Size is “saving” any horses for when he returns to the saddle.
Remember what happened two seasons ago when Whyte was suspended and all his rides went to William Pike – who rode three winners on the trot for Size?
Holi Ravioli, indeed!
We are not saying this will happen again, but we would not be at all surprised if Tye Angland gets off the mark on Size’s Elusive Prince and, perhaps also Voile Rouge despite both having horror draws.
Size also has a very good chance to get another winner on board with Endless Luck with Zac Purton aboard.
Someone else, we would really like to see get off the mark is Tim Clark.
Clark is too good a jockey not to make it to Hong Kong’s winner circle.
Yes, he has received huge support from many, but he really has not been on anything that makes one’s eyes pop out.
We know that the connections of Rock’n Typhoon – Clark is on it – are very confident of the horse winning Race 6.
Rock’n Typhoon is no Typhoon Zed which is a horse Clark knows all about.
Though this is a weak field and it has a run under its belt, Rock’n Typhoon is a good looking horse with a pretty good record when it raced in France – and that was ages ago – just seems like a non-winner to us.
It comes up to win and then doesn’t go on with it and is lucky to even run in the top four.
If it wins, great as it will mean a winner for young Clark and the connections of the horse, but it won’t have any of our money.
Two horses we will be following are numbers 6 and 9 in Race 5 – Baituwu and Golden Treasure, respectively.
We loathe these all-weather races, but both look to have very good chances – especially Baituwu who pissed in the last time it ran on the all-weather track.
But what we’ll be waiting for is the Caspar Fownes-trained Best City in the last.
We’ll take this each-way and use it as our banker on everything.
This is a VERY good horse!
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