Horse Racing Trader’s Tips: Happy Valley – Wednesday 15th April

The final race of the day’s nine handicaps features thehighest quality. Three runners in the nine-furlong Grade Two race ran in theHong Kong Derby at Sha Tin last time out.

On that occasion, it was Reliable Team who fared best,finishing a creditable fifth from 14 runners and being beaten by only four anda half lengths in a race worth in excess of £1.1 million to the winner. AmazingBeats finished 8th, with Private Secretary coming home in 13th.

Frankie Lor’s four-year-old has won three of his previoussix race starts at Happy Valley, finished outside of the top three only once.He’s dropped a grade here and with a decent draw in stall four, he should gowell.

Seven-year-old Helene Charisma is a dual course anddistance winner here and will be familiar to some European racing fans, havingwon the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris at Saint-Cloud in 2016. He ran for PiaBrandt under his previous name, Mont Ormel.

On that occasion, he beat the top-class Cloth Of Stars intothird, but has won only three of his 40 starts since being sold to race in HongKong.

Righteous Doctrine has won Sha Tin handicaps underthe stewardship of Joao Moreira on his two most recent starts. Both of thosewins came on the all-weather course, and the gelding has finished unplaced inall seven of his previous turf runs in Hong Kong so he looks opposable on debutat Happy Valley.

Moreira switches to 11-time Hong Kong Champion Trainer John Size’s Enrichment for this race, who is currently on a 17-race losing streak.

He’s been running well of late having finished second at ShaTin on his two most recent outings, but they’ll look to capitalise on his solecareer win, which came on the last occasion he was ridden by Moreira.

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