Big 15-race card at Seoul on Saturday. Race 1 is at 14:00 and Race 15 at 21:00. Full preview below:
Playtime’s over. Moon Se Young is back in town 9Pic: Ross Holburt)
Race 1: Class 6 (1000M) Allowance / KRW 22 Million
| 1. MINDEULRE CHUKJE – Best of 5th from six outings. |
| 2. YAHO WORLD STAR – 8th on both tries so far. Showed prominently last start but weakened. |
| 3. HWANGGEUM YEONMOT – Improved 4th ahead of Kaiser Queen on latest start at odds of 120/1. May be shorter today but still others favoured. |
| 4. KAISER QUEEN – Beaten by Hwanggeum Yeonmeot in early July but recovered two weeks ago to run 3rd of 11 in wet conditions. Chance today. |
| 5. NOBLE QUEEN – Well backed on debut following winning trial but came last after stumbling out of the gate. Three months off since and fresh start today. |
| 6. CUPID DATE – Took a while to qualify and then only beat two on debut a month ago. |
| 7. BEST DOLPUNG – Average trial followed by average debut last month. |
| 8. SHARK KING – Just second start for this 5-year-old. Raced once last autumn – came last. Trialed up ok but a total wildcard here. |
| 9. HONEY BAROWS – About time this one won. Has had a couple of hard luck stories and also just run badly a couple of times but can put things right here. |
| 10. DUAL CHOEGANG – Has been steadily improving. 4th last time over 1000M and can continue to progress today.
Verdict: Pretty competitive opener with (4) KAISER QUEEN and (9) HONEY BAROWS the top picks. Both have been close but inconsistent and we’ll go with the latter to step up here. (3) HWANGGEUM YEONMOT defied lengthy odds last time to improve and could maintain that here while (10) DUAL CHOEGANG looks best of the rest. |
| Selections | (9) Honey Barows (4) Kaiser Queen (3) Hwanggeum Yeonmot (10) Dual Choegang |
| Next Best | 5, 1 |
| Fast Start | 2, 3, 4, 9 |
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