Singapore Racing – Today
While Laurie Laxon has HW Alwin Tan breathing down his neck at the business end of the 2014 season, you wound’t bet against the Kiwi.
10th December 2014
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While Laurie Laxon has HW Alwin Tan breathing down his neck at the business end of the 2014 season, you wound’t bet against the Kiwi.
EL PADRINO has had a pretty impressive career to date. When winning in Korea at his last start, he joined the undisputed champ, ROCKET MAN,
A very tough night for punters with plenty of depth in most races making finding the winners even tougher than usual
As we near the end of the 2014 season, things start to wind down with some mediocre Poly races dominating the race cards.
Sunday doesn’t disappoint in that regard but a diamond in the rough is a Kranji Stakes A sprint (race 9) that has HUKA FALLS back on the Poly and hard to beat.
A tough night for pundits and punters with more than a few horses looking like they have found the right race to show their best form.
A few nice local races on what should be a sunny Singapore Sunday afternoon but all eyes will be on the big screen and SPALATO in Hong Kong.
We have said it before and we will say it again, the trials on Tuesday and Thursday morning at Kranji are a terrific guide.
It might not stop a nation but the Longines Singapore Gold Cup certainly slows down a republic.
A great weekends’ racing but, to be fair to some nice horses going round on Friday, the all-Polytrack meeting doesn’t reach great heights.
This Sunday meeting might have been one to sit back and take stock but the scheduling of the EW Barker makes it compulsory viewing.
The final leg of the More Magic 3YO Championships headlines a solid 8-race card from Singapore and all eyes will be on one horse – AFFLECK.
The premature loss of Lancaster Bomber (War Front) was a sad setback to the South African thoroughbred industry
The highest-rated horses in all but one race – Parisian Walkway, who achieved his highest performance figure over 1600m – claimed the top four positions in each of this past weekend’s Grade 1 and Grade 2 races (excluding the two-year-old races).This provides strong validation regarding the effectiveness of the rating system!
In one of the most high-profile in-race incidents of the past five years, former SA champion jockey Gavin Lerena was found guilty of four charges, while Jason Gates didn’t escape punishment
Glistian Events’ Joao da Mata chats to Cape Racing Chairman Greg Bortz about the path ahead for SA horseracing
