Feel better, Excellent Boy. Ruled out...
Happy retirement, Our Jet.
Okay let's DO it!
R1, I'm not seeing Gallant's pick of Silly Boy here at all.
Flying Kenny (safer to play all / FK) unless Moshi Moshi draws in (stand-by starter).
R2, Bullish Cash / Hail the Storm / Fellowship / Sunny King
I love Bullish Cash. Workout partner to Lucky me and Super Genki (not that that means much but lucky them!) and not just for the Bullish connection (although i do like Bullish Win too). Very short field (9 runners) and they're ALL nice horses.....a lower level Class 1 and should be a lot of fun to watch.
R3, One World / Lifeline Pegasus
R4,
The Russian Pearl Handicap, Bold Champion, My Faith, Mythic Speed in some order!
R5, Lucky Hero (best bet!) / Deferential and Sanziro
R6, Come home safe, First Knight... his 94th start. No pick, wide open, will pay huge.
R7...
The other big race...
Race 7 - THE MERCEDES-BENZ HONG KONG CLASSIC MILE
Sunday, January 20, 2008, Sha Tin, 16:00
Turf ,"B+2" Course ,1600m
Prize Money: $8,000,000.00, Rating: -, Race Class: HONG KONG GROUP 1
1 GREEN BIRDIE 126 C Fownes 1080 108 O Doleuze 13 H245 B- 0 -
2 NEVER LOOK BACK 126 P O'Sullivan 1122 105 B Prebble 6 J043 6 -
3 AMBITIOUS GENERAL 126 D J Hall 1116 103 A Delpech 8 J066 SW-/TT1 -2 -
4 HIGH POINT 126 C S Shum 1109 97 G Mosse 11 H215 6 -
5 HELENE MASCOT 126 A S Cruz 1203 94 F Coetzee 3 J164 TT1 - -
6 LUCKYME 126 A S Cruz 1115 94 K L Chui 12 H012 TT 1 -
7 VISIONARIO 126 S Woods 1051 93 C Soumillon 5 J095 0 -
8 FEARLESS 126 D E Ferraris 1123 92 D Whyte 1 H301 -1 -
9 HORACE'S CHOICE 126 C Fownes 1141 89 G Boss 10 H169 TT 1 -
10 EXPRESS WIN 126 C H Yip 1124 88 M Nunes 9 J042 TT 0 -
11 ISLAND SUPER 126 C S Shum 1051 85 E Saint-Martin 2 H297 3 -
12 JACKPOT DELIGHT 126 C Fownes 1181 85 D Beadman 7 J101 B1 0 -
13 STOLEN THUNDER 126 C W Chang 1156 84 Z Purton 4 J003 B/H1 -2 -
Need to ponder!
Edit - I know how good Green Birdie can be but i'm thinking maybe Never look Back with Helene Mascot, Express Win or Visionario underneath.
Lucky me is the rabbit for Helene but Chui doesn't always follow instructions.
R8, Good Ba Ba, Down Town
A great race and not that I'm rooting against Viva pataca here but even with whatever problem Good Ba Ba had a couple of weeks ago? i think he wins here.
IF for some reason Viva Macau wins, I'll be happy. Or Down Town (pretty boy). Or Floral Peg ( a monster last season).
Joyful Winner too. (Snowdrops, where ARE you? Your boy is running!)
In the event Viva pataca does win this, I hope he can win the Triple Crown.
A bet against though..... I'm just sayin'.
R,
The Super Kid Handicap, Eight Plus Nine who should be a big longshot here. Yeung is up but we can't have everything go right in life now, can we?
Boadcious, Super Baby, Bold Win underneath.
Behave, Wong's Success! Do what the other nice kids do and GO IN THE GATE!
R10, hard race.... reluctantly going with Win Practitioner and South Breeze (Saint-Martin up... interesting) cause he's looked good the last two times.I guess I'd toss in Lu Yue who is the former Retro (NZ) but that's really because i love that Yip / Prebble combo (can you say Bulldozer?).
Brettie has been working him though. Hmmm.....
Another interesting horse is Medico, who is Art Trader's workout buddy. Beadman works him. Pass here but he might be one to keep an eye on.
Come home safe, good boys.
Imaginary baskets of smoochies and peppermints to all of you,
, and cheers to the Hong Kong Jockey Club for honoring Russian Pearl, Super Kid, FKP et al.