Big Easy bags Raffles Hotels & Resorts Cup

SINGAPORE,  29 October 2005

BIG EASY deservingly won the Singapore Group 1 S$350,000 Raffles Hotels & Resorts Cup over 1800m at Kranji here today.

A consistent sort who has finished out of the board only once - when fifth - the four-year-old bay New Zealand gelding by Spinning World out of the Forty Niner mare Nicole’s Niner silenced the "big guns" with an upset victory over the Kranji Mile runner-up SPECTRO POWER (7 b.a.g Spectrum - Announce by Military Plume).

Kranji Mile victor REALLY GOOD (6 br.a.g Revoque - Raunchy Ruler by Rancho Ruler) could only finish third this time. Malaysian runner, the Cecil Robert trained SOLO VENTURE beat one home while topweight OPPOSING FORCE was a course scratching.

It was the ninth win in 17 starts for BIG EASY who had two previous Singapore Group 3 successes behind him: the Singapore Guineas and the 3rd Leg of the Singapore 3YO Challenge, both over 1600m.

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Big Easy L Laxon Sam

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Spectro Power P Shaw Du Plessis

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Really Good Baertschiger J Powell

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Dreyfuss L Laxon S Maskiell

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