Toby Darby

It’s all about Hong Kong as Sha Tin hosts some of the best action in the early hours of Sunday morning and Toby Darby covers the biggest and best races on the card. 06:10 SHA TIN The first of the big four group ones is a proper international affair, a few from the UK, a couple from France, throw in a Japanese and an Aussie and we have a thriller. Al Riffa was ruled out of the Melbourne Cup when a short favourite due to vet checks, whether this is quite enough of a stamina test for him these...

Toby Darby heads to Japan for a prestigious race from Chukchi as he previews Japan’s Champions Cup. 06:40 CHUKYO - CHAMPIONS CUP Plenty of these will be looking to make a bold bid from the front, none more so so than favourite Narukami. He’s only lost once in 6 starts and looks a very talented animal. There will be no easy lead today though with plenty looking to set the pace, therefore I am going to look for a closer and this is Luxor Cafe, he was well behind Narukami last time but with a...