Singapore racing continues this Sunday (July 2) for a 12-race turf and dirt fixture, highlighted by the running of the second leg of the Singapore Four-Year-Old Challenge, the $150,000 Group 2 Stewards’ Cup over 1600m.
Star four-year-old SUPER SALUTE is the headline act in the Stewards’ Cup, having taken all before him in his previous seven starts.
SUPER SALUTE’S winning streak of seven kicked off after a luckless fourth-place finish on debut in September last year. The Jason Lim-trained talent claimed his first Group victory in the G2 EW Barker Trophy two starts ago before scoring another impressive win in the 1st leg of the 4YO Challenge, the Group 3 Silver Bowl over 1400m last start.
With a rating of 97 points, SUPER SALUTE remains ideally placed at set-weights as the highest-rated four-year-old, and he will face a similar field to his last start. The Tim Fitzsimmons-trained GOLDEN MONKEY, rated 90, poses as the only danger, especially with fly-in jockey Chad Schofield in the saddle.
It could be another big day out for leading trainer Jason Lim, as he saddles up other promising four-year-old ELITE LEGEND in the $70,000 Class 3 race over 1600m on turf.
A one-time winner with three placings from seven starts in the United Kingdom, ELITE LEGEND was unlucky not to win his local debut two starts ago when he travelled wide throughout but only missed by a neck over 1400m. Second-up, the gelding made amends for that defeat when rising to this distance, scoring by a comfortable margin of two lengths.
Despite trying Class 3 for the first time this week, ELITE LEGEND looks to have some rating points up his sleeve, and he is well-weighted to land a double in a small field of nine.
