Horse Racing Singapore and Malaysia

My personal favourite ROYAL Captain got barrier 8. Not too bad …

No: Horse Jockey Trainer Weight Barrier
1 CRUSOE Andrew Calder Laurie Laxon 57kgs 9
2 MY ROYAL CAPTAIN Noel Callow Laurie Laxon 57kgs 8
3 CHEVRON Ronnie Stewart Charles Leck 57kgs 7
4 WORLD DELIGHT Richard Lim Bruce Marsh 57kgs 10
5 ZINLY KB Soo Sam Chua 57kgs 6
6 JADE K Fujii Takaoka 57kgs 2
7 WIND CHASER Dan Nikolic Stephen Gray 57kgs 14
8 ECHAGUE Barend Vorster Patrick Shaw 57kgs 5
9 STEALTH Matthew Pumpa Bruce Marsh 57kgs 13
10 LIM’S PRESTIGE Oscar Chavez Stephen Gray 57kgs 4
11 SCHMEICHEL Robbie Fradd Patrick Shaw 57kgs 12
12 CASMODADO Mark Gallagher M Clements 57kgs 1
13 ROYAL CROWN Darren Beadman Bruce Marsh 57kgs 11
14 WORTH THE WAIT Matthew Kellady Baertschiger 57kgs 3

Sand racing for tonight …

Race 1 - 3 Justforhelp looks like hot favourite. Outsider, I am looking at 9 Prince Gold. Hope this 2 year old can fire !

Race 2, got quite a number of front running horse in this field. Veeandvee, Golden Chestnut, Welcome Change and Valiant Master. Personally I like Welcome Change.

Race 3 - 2 Superb Legend seems the best here with Mark Ewe claiming 2kg.

Race 4, I feel that this is a tough race. Prefer to skip. If I were to pick a horse for betting, I will consider Royal Smile.

Race 5, 10 Super Express is a very risky horse. I think he will definitely lead in this race. Since he won before on SAND and place in 1400m, just scared it will lead from pillar to post. Outsider that I like is Sandstorm. He won at MRA 46 points carrying 56.5kg. Now, MRA points is 48 and -4kg claim will result 53.5kg in riding weight. This horse definitely got advantage in ratings. Let’s see whether Azrull can overcome the wide barrier or not.

Race 6, no idea … i don’t really like maiden. I will monitor the tote for 10 Handsome Jazz for betting support.

Race 7, Lim’s Swing and outsider Dreammore.

Race 8, Han Effect for me … value pick, I go for Kamsky

Race 9, go for value pick again … Classical Park.

That’s my preference for now. Will look at the last minute betting support to reconfirm my bet. Good luck …

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 …