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Happy Valley Form Guide (Race 9) | Speed Map

Wednesday, 15th January 2025

9
09:50 ET

CONNAUGHT HANDICAP

WT: 115lbs Type: RST80-60 Fastest Time: 1:08.82 Howdeepisyourlove 26 Apr 2023 RST105-80 SOT:G
6 f TURF
9
09:50
(local)
HKD $1,860,000
6 f

CONNAUGHT HANDICAP

WT: 115lbs Type: RST80-60 Fastest Time: 1:08.82 Howdeepisyourlove 26 Apr 2023 RST105-80 SOT:G

#1 Aurora Lady continues his upward trajectory as he seeks a hat-trick of wins and his fourth victory this season. The Pierre Ng-trained runner has climbed swiftly through the handicap and is poised to win his way into Class 2. #9 Spicy Gold is a likeable prospect returning on a quick seven-day turnaround after narrowly missing out here last week. Prior to that, he was an unlucky fifth behind Aurora Lady, held up for the final 300m. #11 Flying Fortress is an intriguing contender from barrier 1. Third-up in Hong Kong, he showed early speed first-up at Sha Tin before a closing sixth over this course and distance behind Aurora Lady last time out. #6 Chateauneuf is building towards another win. He started favourite two runs ago in the race won by Aurora Lady but had valid excuses before rebounding strongly to finish second to Storming Dragon at Sha Tin last start.

Print
Pace Note :
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12 . HAROLD WIN (17.5m/s)
10 . TURF PHOENIX
8 . GALLANT VALOUR (16.4m/s)
5 . BRIGHT DAY (17.1m/s)
9 . SPICY GOLD (17.0m/s)
1 . AURORA LADY (17.3m/s)
6 . CHATEAUNEUF (17.1m/s)
2 . GUSTOSISIMO (17.2m/s)
3 . NORDIC DRAGON (16.8m/s)
4 . WINGS OF WAR (16.7m/s)
11 . FLYING FORTRESS (16.7m/s)
7 . DENFIELD (16.8m/s)
13 . PHOENIX LIGHT (16.6m/s)
14 . RUN RUN SMART (17m/s)
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Tab Horse WT Jockey JR BP AES AFS
1 AURORA LADY STAR WITNESS (AUS) - COOL SNITZEL (AUS) 9-9
61.0
ZAC PURTON 4.5 7 17.3 17.5
2 GUSTOSISIMO EXCEED AND EXCEL (AUS) - KANIANA (AUS) 9-4
59.0
ANGUS CHUNG (a1.5kg) 1.7 5 17.2 17.7
3 NORDIC DRAGON STARSPANGLEDBANNER (AUS) - RELY ON ME (IRE) 9-4
59.0
ALEXIS POUCHIN 2.2 4 16.8 18.0
4 WINGS OF WAR DARK ANGEL (IRE) - FUTOON (IRE) 9-4
59.0
HUGH BOWMAN 2.7 3 16.7 17.9
5 BRIGHT DAY STARCRAFT (NZ) - DON'T TELL CLANG (AUS) 9-1
57.5
DEREK LEUNG 1.7 9 17.1 17.4
6 CHATEAUNEUF FASTNET ROCK (AUS) - MY SABEEL (NZ) 8-13
56.5
KARIS TEETAN 1.9 6 17.1 17.7
7 DENFIELD DEEP FIELD (AUS) - BOUSQUET (AUS) 8-9
55.0
MATTHEW POON 2.6 1 16.8 18.1
8 GALLANT VALOUR HEROIC VALOUR (AUS) - LASSILA (AUS) 8-9
55.0
BRENTON AVDULLA 1.6 10 16.4 18.2
9 SPICY GOLD SO YOU THINK (NZ) - SPECTROLITE (AUS) 8-9
55.0
ALEX BADEL 1.8 8 17.0 17.8
10 TURF PHOENIX PHOENIX OF SPAIN (IRE) - FREEDOM MARCH (GB) 8-9
55.0
KEAGAN DE MELO 3.1 11 - -
11 FLYING FORTRESS SHAMEXPRESS (NZ) - STARGURU (NZ) 8-4
52.5
MATTHEW CHADWICK 1.9 2 16.7 17.4
12 HAROLD WIN SWISS ACE (AUS) - MUSICALLY (AUS) 8-4
52.5
ANDREA ATZENI 1.8 12 17.5 18.0
13 PHOENIX LIGHT LOVE CONQUERS ALL (AUS) - COURTSHIP (AUS) 8-3
52.0
0.0 16.6 18.5
14 RUN RUN SMART DANDY MAN (IRE) - LAUREN'S GIRL (IRE) 8-7
54.0
0.0 17.0 18.0

Sky Racing World Speed Map facility

Welcome to the Sky Racing World Speed Mapping facility. This feature has been designed to provide you with an easy-to-use handicapping tool for Speed Mapping races.

The mapping of a race could not be any easier. Enter your own values or just simply rely on the computer generated running styles values already in place. Just click “Submit?to generate the map.

The Sky Racing World computers will provide you with a starting point on the likely running style for each horse under today’s race conditions. The computers analyse a horse’s full career at today’s distance and determine whether it leads or is a backmarker etc.

If you prefer to input your own running style predictions for each runner then just change the computer values in in RunS column. When complete submit your values to automatically generate a Speed map for the race under consideration.

Examples of Running Styles

The Running Style (RunS) categories used by the R&S computer are;

For ease of Race Mapping each category has been broken up into two sub categories eg L1 and L2.

In addition to the Running Style for each horse, the Sky Racing World Computers also calculate the average early speed (AES) for most runners (where information is available) at approximately the distance of today’s race.

Similarly the computers also calculate an average finishing speed (AFS) for each runner.

These values are in metres/second and provide another useful guide for developing an accurate speed map.

Sometimes a running style will be at “odds? with the early speed of a runner, more so where two runners have the same running style.

For example, two leaders may have different AES figures which allows you to decide which of the two may race more forward.

Conversely the AFS gives an indication of which runners are the big finishers in the race, supposing of course they do not get too far out of their ground early.

Moving the Horses on the Grid

Sky Racing World has now developed software which enables the user to “fine tune?the Speed Map by actually moving the horses around the grid.

To move a horse to a new grid location, use your mouse and click on the horse and drag it to a new position as below.

To retain your new Speed Map remember to click the save button.

Explanation

BP Barrier Postion
RunS Running Style
AES Average Early Speed
AFS Average Final Speed