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Seoul Racecourse – Track Analysis (Korea Sprint):

The Seoul Racecourse features a pair of sand tracks, with an 1800m outer oval encompassing an 1600m inner course, while both strips are 30m wide with homestretches that go 400m from the top to the finish. This year's edition of the Korea Sprint will be staged as accustomed on the outer oval.

With no apparent undulations, starters for the 1200m Korea Sprint will, in fact, break slightly downhill through a 350m backstretch before hitting the far turn. Turning for home, the field will race to the finish over an entirely – yet still subtly – uphill homestretch, and with that sweeping far turn in play, horses still rate a good chance even when they swing it out onto the four or five path. Not intuitively generous at all against front-runners, late closers on this sand strip still have their fair share of kick-backs to deal with, thus a typical sprint, generally speaking of in Korea, still favours those that are hustled to the front early with a clean, antiseptic trip.

In the past two editions of the Korea Sprint, both winners – Hong Kong’s SUPER JOCKEY in 2016, and GRACEFUL LEAP representing Japan in 2017 – hounded the early leaders before launching their bids in deep stretch to score emphatically.

With intermittent precipitation that hopefully will make way for some sunshine just in time, the track at Seoul would still be listed as fast for this featured prize on Sunday. Should that be the case, front-runners will still get a slight edge.

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