Horse Racing Singapore and Malaysia

Aussie trainer John Meagher and his super-talented apprentice Adam Fiezan took the feature sprint at today’s Kranji meeting in Singapore, with smart galloper Arenti – who brought his winning tally to 9 wins from 12 starts with the win.

Meagher has had several top flight apprentices in his care in Australia including Brett Prebble (now hugely successful in Hong Kong) and Aaron Spiteri (who is riding in Singapore) but Fiezan is equal to any of them at a comparative stages of their careers and his ability is clearly evident by his master’s faith in putting him on Arenti in the feature race.

Despite being slowly away, Fiezan did not panic and gradually wound his way through the field on Arenti to have him within striking distance of the leaders on the final turn where he brought him to the outside to run down Zinly (Benny Woodworth) and Meagher’s other runner, Lim’s Passion (Terry Ong) to win decisively.

It was the second leg of a winning double for Meagher and Fiezan who had earlier scored with Spec Prince.

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Top flight Aussie jockey Noel Callow has hit the ground running in Singapore – winning today on Royal Smile for Kiwi trainer Laurie Laxon – the win being Callow’s third in as many meetings since his arrival in Singapore.

Callow and former star Australian apprentice, Japanese boy Joe Fuji, commenced riding in Singapore last Monday and both rode a winner on their opening meeting.

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Mark Ewe, as I predicted recently, has not taken long to get into stride in Singapore either – and the Malaysian boy who rode many winners in Perth in recent months before returning to ride in Singapore, rode a winner today at Kranji on board the Charles Leck trained Patience Reward.

Aussie jockey Ronnie Stewart also had a winning double at the meeting, scoring on Cheyenne Dancer for S. Gray and Welcome Change for fellow Aussie, trainer Len Treloar.

Victorian trainer Brian Dean also led in a double at today’s meeting Victory Star and Sunshine Touch, both ridden by Panamanian jockey and long term Asian resident, Oscar Chavez.

My favourite South East Asian jockey Benny Woodworth rounded out today’s card with a win in the last on Destiny’s Day.

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