It's heeeeere!!!!!
What better way to begin?
The first of the 2010 / 2011 Hong Kong Raiders...
The eagle (well Birdie) has landed.
http://japanracing.jp/_news2010/100903.html
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R2, Tom's Eighth / Divine Kid
R3, Cerise Cherry
R4, Such a nice field. Much as I love Dynamic Blitz (and Dream Team is a nice horse) I don't see how anyone can beat Lucky Nine here.
R5. Western Star (the former Confucius Captain (IRE) ) hasn't won since coming to HK. 14 runs, hit the board only once but I think Chadwick, who worked him the other day, works his magic here). (G/l to Kimberely who is one of three girls in HK that i know of this season. Wonder if there are a couple more...).
R6, Lombardi
R7, Blaze King
R8, Best Win (Castagnola) makes his HK debut, Doyle up.
R9, Prebble gives Royal Pumpkin (the former infer) his 2nd HK win here.
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Barrier trials...
http://www.hkjc.com/english/press/btrs.asp
Horses of note... Helene Witty, Win Practitioner and (I've been waiting to see) Irish Pearl (the former Ishka Baha and trained by O'Sullivan, he belongs to the owners of one of my favorites ever, Russian Pearl) in batch 2, Multibullish in 3, Winfinder wins batch 6, Sweet Santee wins batch 7 (no surprise!), Finn MacCool in batch 7 (2nd) and Gallopy (I love that name
) 3rd in 8).
Entries for the 8th at Happy Valley include Windicator Returns, Silver Sun, Fluke, Best Military and Medic Fortune (somday he'll win one).