Ultra-consistent four-year-old SUPER EXPRESS looks well placed to secure back-to-back victories in Thursday’s Class 3 Handicap over 1400m at Sha Tin.
The son of Ten Sovereigns boasts two wins and four placings from six starts and resumed in mid-January with a solid runner-up effort before making amends in style last time out. Well supported in the market, he showed good early speed to settle just off the pace from an awkward draw before quickening decisively in the straight to score by three-quarters of a length over this track and distance.
SUPER EXPRESS still appears to have ratings in hand and shapes as the runner to beat despite the rise in weight. That said, the rapidly improving AURIO looks the main danger with champion jockey Zac Purton aboard.
The Pierre Ng-trained AEROINVINCIBLE looks well placed to build on his eye-catching last-start performance in Thursday’s Class 4 Handicap over 1400m at Sha Tin.
After two unplaced efforts over the extended mile at Happy Valley, AEROINVINCIBLE appreciated the drop back to 1400m — the trip at which both of his career wins have been recorded — and responded with a much-improved showing. Sent straight to the lead, the Per Incanto gelding set a strong tempo and battled on gamely in the straight, going down by just three-quarters of a length.
Facing an average Class 4 field, AEROINVINCIBLE can prove a big winning chance. GALLANT EPOCH, runner-up in another 1400m race on the same day, looms as a key rival, though the sectional data points to AEROINVINCIBLE having the advantage.
