It was tremendous fun and a privilege and pleasure to join Marsh Shirtliff for a birthday celebration on Monday evening, arranged by his equally sociable son Guy, who has been in Singapore for several years now
With the annual Racing Awards done and dusted for another year, jockeys and trainers alike know the job to topple the leading trainer Laurie Laxon and leading hoop, Manny Nunes, is a tough one.
You only wish all affairs would go this well. WAR AFFAIR has claims to be the best horse in Singapore and looks a good thing in Sundays Group 1 Raffles Cup (race 9).
With the Singapore Guineas win, War Affair continued the perfect run of all Singapore champion three-year-olds having won the Triple Crown since the introduction of the current format. In the second feature, the filly Kiwi Karma won the Gr2 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe
The Singapore stellar weekend kicks off with a bumper racemeeting on Friday. War Affair, the champion 3yo elect steps up in distance in the Singapore Guineas
WAR AFFAIR (6 for 8) is an outstanding prospect considering his only defeats were on debut and at his last start in Open WFA company.
The Gr1 Raffles Cup is the highlight on a good days racing. The best middle-distance horses do battle for the lions share of the SGD$500,000
WAR AFFAIR might not be an Australian-bred horse but he sure knows how to win races sponsored by the Aussie breeding industry.
The 2YO’s get their last chance for Group glory as juveniles in the Juvenile Championship where WAR AFFAIR looks very hard to beat.
The biggest weekend of racing in Singapore kicks off on Friday with a bumper nine race card that includes the best two and three-year-olds chasing Group glory.
James McDonald closed a highly successful short-term stint in Hong Kong with a quartet at Sha Tin on Sunday
