Last year’s Listed Midsummer Stakes winner Pogo returned after a last-start second in the Gr.2 Challenge Stakes in October to land the Listed EBF King Richard III Stakes at Leicester yesterday. The Charlie Hills-trained 5YO was sent off as favourite of the four runners and was ridden close to the pace by Kieran Shoemark. He hit the front a furlong from home and saw off the challenge of Mums Tippl ...
An emotional Daniel Meagher was trying to take it all in after he notched his first Gr.1 success as a trainer in his own right with Lim’s Lightning (Lope De Vega) bursting late onto the scene to claim the S$300,000 Gr.1 Lion City Cup yesterday. Meagher, the youngest of Australian Hall of Fame trainer and former Kranji trainer John Meagher’s three sons, spent 11 years in Singapore honing his craft ...
English trainer James Peters picked up a surprise winner with Asgard Massif (Fastnet Rock) going all the way in the S$50,000 Lim’s Cruiser 2017 & 2018 Stakes, a Class 4 Division 2 race over 1400m. Raced by liver surgeon Dr Tan Kai Chah, the 5YO is a son of Dr Tan’s former Kranji champion mare Jolie’s Shinju (Jolie’s Halo), and was registering his first local win after landing in Singapore with a ...