Caorunn did not quite live up to the New Zealand hype he came with last year, but the Shane Baertschiger camp has not lost hope his true ability will shine through this term.

A recurrence of a health setback is always harder to cop than the first onset, but trainer David Kok did not throw in the towel with the talented but injury-plagued Speedy Dragon.

That 600^th winner had been eluding trainer Stephen Gray since The Dodger on December 4, but the long wait was finally over on Monday when Darc Bounty handed the milestone in emphatic style.

Trainer Michael Clements must have felt like deja-vu after he pulled off an almost identical training feat with comeback kid Starshine on Monday.

First-year trainer Ricardo Le Grange saddled his first Group winner after mile specialist Big Brother landed the $200,000 Group 3 Fortune Bowl (1600m) on Sunday.

Champion jockey Manoel Nunes finally got the monkey off his back in the New Year of the Rooster on Sunday.

Champion trainer Alwin Tan came away with mixed feelings after Thursday’s barrier trials where he had three of his headline horses going around.

The third run did not quite give way to the celebration his bubbly name would suggest, but Hip Hip Hooray probably had a valid excuse for the damper – the wet track.

Champion trainer Alwin Tan came away with mixed feelings after Thursday’s barrier trials where he had three of his headline horses going around.

Trainer Hideyuki Takaoka is using Sunday’s mile race as a guide to Jupiter Gold’s campaign towards the Group 1 Singapore Guineas in May.

Classy galloper Wimbledon produced a sizzling all-the-way performance in the $125,000 Kranji Stakes A race over 1200m on Friday, suddenly opening up a few lofty options in the months ahead.

A nice break certainly did a power of good to Bristol Diamond who came off a nippy pace to win the $35,000 Maiden race over 1000m on Friday night.

Ex pat kiwi trainer Bruce Marsh is not at all surprised his former champion Gingerbread Man is still making waves in the breeding barn, and against aristocratic opposition to boot.

NZ bred Debt Collector stormed away a major winner at the 2016 Singapore Racing Awards held on Tuesday night at Fullerton Hotel by sweeping five awards including the coveted Singapore Horse of the Year title.

Blink and you miss it, but to jockey Koh Teck Huat, Knight Spirit’s win on Sunday was a personal record of sorts that has now stretched to its third year in a row.

Don’t ask top French jockey Gerald Mosse about the tongue-twisting names of his two Sunday winners, but you can remind him that the double has now propelled him to third place on the Singapore log.

It was no chest-thumping stuff, but after two first promising runs at Kranji, King Kong was finally able to stand tall at his new stomping ground on Sunday.

Sun Mirage came under an inspiring ride from leading apprentice jockey Wong Chin Chuen to claim the $60,000 RDA Cup 2017, a Class 4 race over 1200m on Sunday.

It may have been just a modest $35,000 Class 5 Division 2 race over 1200m, but apprentice jockey Ng Choon Kiat could barely hide his delight after he steered Magic Paint to an easy win in that event on Sunday.