Horse Racing Singapore and Malaysia

Congratulations …..

Top jockey Saimee Jumaat reached a career 1,000-win milestone on Sunday in Kuala Lumpur when the well-backed Grisham crossed the line first in Race 5.

Saimee, who returned from a one-year disqualification in September, has been in rattling form on both sides of the Causeway. He has already notched up 16 wins at Kranji with his latest haul being a treble on Friday night.

After that meeting, the 35-year-old Singaporean headed up to Kuala Lumpur just three wins short of the tonne on the Malayan Racing Association (MRA) circuit. He bagged a winner (Toll The Bell) on Saturday, followed by a treble (he also scored on Medicine Man and Zhen Dao) on Sunday.

Source : Singapore Turf Club

I hope you “survived” last week KL meeting …

It is an interesting outing for me.

Make some small coins but I am happy as long as I am on the positive side.

Here are some of the interesting stats I gathered.

Before that let me clarify some of my own terminology

Sprint Races are 1200, 1300, 1400
Outsiders, I just classify as payout > RM 40
Since this is Malaysia racing, I will use RM and if it is Singapore racing, I will use SG $.

Both days, there are 14 sprint races and 9 races over a mile.

In the sprint races, 6 out of 14 races are won by horses that pay over RM 40.

Combining first, second and third placing for the sprint races, 25 out of 42 ( 3 placing x 14 races ) on board are outsiders.

It is about 60%.

So, if you are betting on favourite like those paying less than RM 20 in sprint races, you are out of luck.

You will be on losing end.

The reason why this happen is very simple … my horse racing sifu from Singapore ( Mr G ) guided me on this during race day.

Told me, don’t look at those donkeys in Class 5. Look for the younger generation.

They are not proven and possibly steal the show.

and he is RIGHT !

For sprint races, here are the count of horses that are on board.

3yo = 13 ( 5 horses won )
4yo = 7 ( 2 horses won )
5yo = 13 ( 5 horses won )
6yo = 4 ( 1 horse won )
7yo = 4 ( 1 horse won )
9yo = 1

Now, you flip through your race card and look for sprint races.

Tell me, is it easier to pick a 3 year old or 5 year old ?

I guess you can easily count how many entries are there for 3 yo.

It is not much …

Feel free to comment and share your thoughts …

Looking at the race results last week for Selangor races, you can easily pick a winner.

Let’s analyze the race result for Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday 10 Feb 2007

Race 1 - 2 Intervention, Rm 8

Race 2 - 4 Asia Star, Rm 14

Race 3 - 2 Baluna Park, Rm 13

Race 4 - 1 Billyhugh , Rm 9/5 but third

Race 5 - 1 Yakin, Rm 11

Race 6 - 4 Light Easy, Rm 40 but in Singapore it pays only $19.
Initially it was paying Rm 15-16 range but was jumped up.

Race 7 - 4 Why Me, Rm 7

Sunday 11 Feb 2007

Race 1 - 4 Circle Of Life, Rm 12

Race 2 - 4 Linga Storm , Rm 13
and place #2 Rhythm Express also equally hot, Rm 11

Race 3 - 4 Silent Wish, Rm 12 but place second.
Lost by a HEAD to the winner Big Kash

Race 4 - 1 Mystical , Rm 9

Race 5 - 2 High Prodigious, Rm 13

Race 6 - 6 Emperor Commands, Rm 15, fourth.
Exaggerate place third paying Rm 18/5.

Race 7 - 8 Genting Beauty, Rm 15, not on board.

Just small coins in ang pow packet.

Watch out for next week races, maybe surprises can happen.

I wanted to blog about this last Sunday after the race but the slow internet connection really killing my mood.

Until today …

My bet is on Expunge and Raul. Was expecting Raul to run a better race but the horse was struggling during home turn and can’t even bypass China Rock. I know my bet gone …

Luckily I see Spiteri steered Expunge to the front and he was the last corner leader and ahead the rest of the pack. Using the chase me if you can strategy, Expunge beats Light of Success by a mere short head. The finishing was very close. I watched the replay and close up again just to confirm the winner. So, you see how close the finishing is.

I am not able to get any photo finish to share and Singapore Turf Club did not archive any race replay for Malaysia races.

Anybody watch that race ?

Busy week and tiring … so I did not post my selection.

Here are some of my personal watch list for Sunday.

Race 2 - 7
Race 4 - 3
Race 6 - 7
Race 9 - 6