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Sha Tin Racing Tips for November 14 - Yee Cheong Bright can go one better

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Sha Tin hosts an 11-race meeting on Saturday 14 November.
Yee Cheong Bright the best of the day in Race 5, 2nd-up, Zac Purton aboard.
Megastar Heart to win Race 7, won his past 2, well drawn.
Joyful Joy can win Race 11, track specialist, 3rd-up today.

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Sha Tin racing takes place on Saturday, 14 November with an 11-race program set down for the Sha Tin racetrack.
We have the best bets picked from across the meeting with a Best Bet and other value selections for Sha Tin racetrack.

Race 5: No.2 Yee Cheong Bright
Race 7: No.8 Megastar Heart
Race 11: No.10 Joyful Joy

We have the best bets picked from across the meeting with a Best Bet and other value selections for Sha Tin racetrack.

Race 5: No.2 Yee Cheong Bright

The James Cummings-trained galloper is second-up today and looks well placed to go one better in this event.

Last start, the Sun City gelding resumed off a 22-week break and made his Hong Kong debut where he beat all but one home in a Class 3 Hcp, here over 1000m.

Formerly racing in Australia as Phyxius, he handled his first look at Sha Tin well, racing down the straight course where he settled just behind the speed to the 400m mark, then moved up to challenge the leader and chased him all the way to the line but fell just short of a win, beaten a neck on the line.

Meeting similar company here (again down the straight course), he jumps from gate nine and maps to settle better than mid-field with Zac Purton as the new pilot.

Fitter for that first-up run, he is already a winner when second-up and looks a genuine winning chance in this contest.

Race 7: No.8 Megastar Heart

The Caspar Fownes-trained galloper is unbeaten this time in and ticks enough boxes here to suggest he can land the hat-trick in this event.

Last start, the Star Turn gelding came off an impressive first-up win and franked that effort by taking out a Class 3 Hcp, here over 1200m.

Carrying 59kgs, he was sent out a white-hot $1.65 favourite and didn’t let the punters down, winning the event by two lengths and running the 1200m in a sizzling 1:07.7.

Stepping-up in grade here, he takes on Class 2 opposition and from gate seven, maps to settle in the first half-dozen with Luke Ferraris remaining aboard.

Dropping 5kgs for the class rise today, a trouble-free run should see him there at the finish in this contest.

Race 11: No.10 Joyful Joy

Mark Newnham saddles-up Joyful Joy here who is third-up and looks a major player in this event.

Last start, the Australian-sired gelding came off a first-up win in Class 4 company over 1400m when he stepped-up in grade and wasn’t disgraced when finishing fourth in a Class 3, here over 1600m.

Having no luck at all in the run, he missed the start and with James Orman aboard, settled in the back half of the field to the turn, then in the run home, never saw daylight until the final 100m where he hit the line hard to finish just over two lengths behind the placegetters.

From gate four today, he maps to settle in the back-half of the field with Zac Purton taking over as the new pilot.

Fitter for those two runs back and with a less troublesome run today, the four-year-old should prove hard to hold out in this contest.