Good news! There’s excellent top-level Thoroughbred racing this weekend. Bad news! It’s happening in the middle of the night. The 2021 Hong Kong International Races come Sunday afternoon at Sha Tin, which, challengingly, is the middle of Saturday night in America. Homegrown star Golden Sixty goes for his second straight Hong Kong Mile and 16th win in a row, but Danon Kingly, part of a large Japanese contingent, might beat him at a fair price. Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf heroine Loves Only You will be the chalk in the Hong Kong Cup, with Dubai Honour the upset chance. The compelling nature of these races aside, we’ll stick closer to home. Mr. Prospector Since September, trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. has started six horses in dirt stakes at Gulfstream Park, those runners compiling a record of 3-1-0, and I expect Wind of Change to enhance the Joseph strike rate when he runs in the Mr. Prospector. Wind of Change hardly will offer boxcar odds in this seven-horse field, but he’s the 3-1 third choice on the track’s morning line, and something like that would be fair, especially considering the two other “logical contenders.” :: Get Daily Racing Form Past Performances – the exclusive home of Beyer Speed Figures Endorsed, 5-2 on the line, brings a 14-race losing streak dating to May 2020 into this seven-furlong contest. Dennis’ Moment is listed at 2-1, which feels like a massive underlay on a horse whose shining moments came as a 2-year-old of 2019, and whose bounce-back race, in October at Keeneland, was a grinding second-level allowance victory. Three superficially subpar showings somewhat obscure Wind of Change’s strongly contending form. Wind of Change’s most recent race came over the Tapeta surface at Gulfstream, and this is a dirt horse. Two back, he tried a two-turn sprint over the Charles Town bullring, where he ran all right but wasn’t at his best. And three races ago, during a really trying Saratoga meeting for Joseph, a bump at the start took Wind of Change out of his best game, which is leading. Here, with an inside draw, an alert break will put Wind of Change on the lead. His best races have come at six furlongs, not seven. He faded to fourth in the 2020 Mr. Prospector, but the three horses that passed him a year ago, before Joseph began training the horse, all are better than anything Wind of Change faces Saturday. Poinsettia Super Stock, the 9-5 favorite in this late-season 3-year-old dirt route, has been racing steadily since March. Flash of Mischief, the 5-2 second choice, has been on the go without a break since his career debut 13 months ago at Remington Park. Ram, sure to be a lower price than his 12-1 morning line, began his campaign in January and hasn’t gotten a break. :: Join DRF Bets and play the races with a $250 First Deposit Bonus. Click to learn more. The Poinsettia begs for a fresh horse, a horse like Defeater, who went out with an injury after two promising performances last winter at Fair Grounds and has only raced three times since his return. Two of those starts came around one turn and looked quite encouraging, but Defeater floundered in his two-turn start this form cycle, the Oklahoma Derby, making one wonder if he can race as effectively at a distance this long. Last Samurai comes with the opposite concern: Is the 1 1/16-mile Poinsettia too short? Possibly, as this late-developing colt’s good recent form has come at distances between nine and 12 furlongs, but I’ll guess Last Samurai, presumably at a fair price, will adapt. Last Samurai’s journey last out in a Churchill allowance race was about as tough as trips get. Blocked behind a wall of horses from the five-sixteenths pole past the quarter pole, Last Samurai finally found a spot of daylight, only to get slammed off stride and wind up blocked again at the furlong grounds. He probably moved too soon facing older foes in the 1 1/2-mile Greenwood Cup and has gotten in two workouts since that Churchill debacle. Louisiana Champions Day Classic There are at this point essentially no Louisiana-bred older horses truly qualified to run a strong race over 1 1/8 miles on dirt, so I’ll look to 3-year-old Highland Creek to step up and win the Champions Day Classic. This gelding remained in early development stages when beaten last spring in the Crescent City Derby by stablemate Who Took the Money, but Highland Creek returned at Delta Downs last month following a long layoff with the best race of his life, and on pedigree he’s likely to stay the nine-furlong distance.