Hong Kong 2011 ~ 2012

[my miss storm cat]

I'd love to know how it is!

So lucky... wish I were there!

Nice field!

Race 9 - CASTLE PEAK BAY HANDICAP
Sunday, March 25, 2012, Sha Tin, 17:15
Turf ,"A+3" Course ,1400m ,Good

Prize Money: $1,800,000.00, Rating: 110-85, Class 1

Horse No. Last 6 Runs Colour Horse Wt. Jockey Draw Trainer Rtg. Rtg.+/- Horse Wt. (Declaration) Gear

1 5/8/1/2/2/14 PENGLAI XIANZI 133 M Chadwick (-2) 1 A S Cruz 106 0 1087 TT
2 2/10/10/6/5/10 TAI SING YEH 130 T Clark 6 R Gibson 103 2 1015 B
3 3/12/6/14/14/10 CERISE CHERRY 128 B Prebble 11 D Cruz 101 1 1091 B/TT
4 7/1/2/2/1/2 CROWN WITNESS 128 T Angland 5 A S Cruz 101 0 1276 TT
5 4/7/9/12/12/3 CHATER WAY 126 Z Purton 9 D E Ferraris 99 -1 1186 SR
6 2/1/5/12/3/9 FULFIL A WISH 124 M L Yeung (-3) 3 J Size 97 2 1112
7 4/1/3/2/5/3 TIME AFTER TIME 122 J Lloyd 10 J Moore 95 0 1105 XB/TT
8 3/4/10/8/7/7 VOILE ROUGE 121 D Whyte 4 J Size 94 1 1156 B/TT
9 6/5/2/8/5/9 SEMOS 117 M Du Plessis 7 C Fownes 90 -1 1106 B/TT
10 9 CALIFORNIA DUDE 116 U Rispoli 12 A S Cruz 89 0 1107 TT
11 5/11/4/4/4/5 KYARA 114 W M Lai (-2) 8 J Moore 87 -1 1109 H/XB
12 13/11/10 CORPORAL JONES 113 K C Leung (-2) 2 P O'Sullivan 86 -7 1122 TT-

[Bill K]

Should be a fine day today. According to the betting it comes down to:
#8 Voile Rouge at 5.5/1
#4 Crown Witness at 5.6/1
#6 Fulfil A Wish at 7.5/1

Figure Size with have ML Yeung up on the pace to keep Crown Witness busy which should leave Whyte in perfect position to swoop in the stretch to win it

I like a horse in Race 1 #1 Watch First 7.5/1. BK Ng doesn't start a great many horses and when he does at Shatin take care. Believe it or not he has the 2nd highest win % next to John Size. The team of Ng and Prebble are 12 2 2 2 this season. He takes the blinkers off for this race class 5 and although he is high weight, give him an each way chance

[my miss storm cat]

I didn't know that about Ng. I know he's been a trainer for a very long time but I don't know too much about him at all.

If I were playing (and trying to be objective cause I'm a fan of too many here of course. I need to stop that!) I'd use Crown Witness, Time After Time and Penglai Xianzi in some order but what do I know?!

(I do think Time After Time will be totally overlooked.)

Good luck!

[Bill K]

Your Time After Time is the consensus pick in Racing Post. Your three horses are excellent. Most favored or Consensus have :
#7 Time after Time
#4 Crown Witness
#1 Penglai Xianxi
# 6 Fufill A Wish

Your are on the right horses. Good luck!

[my miss storm cat]

Well thank you for saying that! Didn't do me any good but I'm glad to know my picks looked alright last night anyway.

Kyara? Really? I wasn't expecting that at all.

Haven't seen replays yet... I had a fun disaster to deal with last night, but eill soon and will check to see how Watch First did.

Hope you did well aside from this race and that you had a lot of fun!

Happy Valley on Wednesday?

[Bill K]

Well when you see the video you will see they went slightly faster than par. All 4 leading horses 1-4-6-8 finished off the board. Also take a look at Race 1 and Race 8, you will clearly see why Whyte outclasses all the other Jocks here. Be interested in your opinion, watch the #1 in R1 (on the rail out of the gate. and Race 8 #9 basically in same position.

[my miss storm cat]

Yeah he is incredible and in the 8th? I don't even know how he got The Peak through like that. Amazing and yes the best. I agree.

Prebble is my favorite and a brilliant jockey but Whyte is just superb.

(Soft spot for Chadwick who is really really good too).

I'm excited about one of the races this week at HV...

Regency Winner and Emperor Claudius along with poor Jamesina who hasn't won in literally years and the disappointing Helene Spirit and Osvaldo who it seems reemmbered how to win lately.

I hope you get to go to that!

Some day when you can and if you want to tell me about actually being at both tracks. I love following these horses so much.

I wish other places would be as accommodating as the HKJC in terms of giving out so much information.