Sunday notes/ Aqueduct at a distance

From San Jose, Costa Rica

A decent card today at Aqueduct, which I intend to take in from a seat in what may be the world’s smallest and most primitive race and sports book here, not the typical day at the races.

Tucked away in the Hotel Morazon, a room with eight televisions, the majority of which will be devoted to basketball and soccer, offers wagering on the races in New York and whatever other product the proprietors are able to import via a streaming video feed that is quite primitive, but nevertheless the only show in town. Place a wager and it is recorded by hand on a slip of paper.

Aqueduct: Feb. 17

Four potential plays:

Race 4: Aim to Victory
Race 5: Pay Attention
Race 8: Sherine
Race 9: Tricky Tuck

Showdown takes form in Hong Kong

From the Hong Kong Jockey Club

Sacred Kingdom, regarded among the world’s best sprinters set the stage for a confrontation with Hong Kong's best miler, Good Ba Ba, with a dazzling triumph in the Chairman's Sprint Prize on Sunday at Sha Tin.

A length-and-a-half margin of victory from Absolute Champion in the second leg of the

We can now look forward to what is shaping up as the race of the Hong Kong season on March 15 when Sacred Kingdom stretches out to seven furlongs for the first time in the Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup against Good Ba Ba, winner of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile and the Stewards' Cup.