Song To The Moon
Singapore Turf Club
| The Patrick Shaw-Nooresh Juglall hot streak does not look like it will end anytime soon after they brought up another winner in Song To The Moon in Race 2 on Sunday. On the night his sire Savabeel raked in three stallion awards at the New Zealand Horse of the Year Awards dinner, Song To The Moon was on the quick back-up after last Sunday's debut seventh to Paperback Trooper. Settled in midfield in the compact field from the start, the four-year-old was within striking distance turning for home. Funkadelic (Kif Toh) was the first to collar the leader Cerdan (Matthew Chadwick) but as the latter rolled off, a saloon passage presented itself at the top of the straight, and Juglall needed no second invitation. As Song To The Moon shot clear with a sizzling acceleration, the issue was put beyond doubt in no time, racing away to a 1 ΒΌ-length win from Energizer (Saifudin Ismail) with Funkadelic third another neck away. "He'll become a good stayer. He's all quality," was Shaw's high praise of the Jubilant No 3 Stable-owned gelding. "He was so green over 1200m at his debut. He never raced and as he's pulled up well and there were no other 1400m races around, I thought that race would suit him. "We've put the winkers on and he had more time to relax over more ground." Juglall jumped off giving an even bigger wrap on Song To The Moon. "He's still got plenty of scope about him, but he sure is a very nice horse. He was not 100% at his first run, but he has come on quickly," said the in-form hoop. "He's quite a big horse and when a gap came up at the top of the straight, I dug him in there and I was quite surprised with the way he quickened inside the last 200m. "A big thank you to the owner Mr Joshua Tan for putting me on his horse." Song To The Moon was a $230,000 purchase from the draft of Anzac Lodge at the 2014 Ready to Run Sale. |