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With the aid
of a change of gear, ROBBERY SON staged a dramatic from-last-to-first
victory to upset the favourite SHANGHAI NIGHTS in the Metro A set-weight
event over 1400m at Sungei Besi here today.
A little slow into stride, the son of Lonhro was last early but gained
ground making the turn into the home straight when his jockey Wong Kam Chong
elected to take the rails while the rest of the field moved out for better
ground. "I wanted to save ground," Wong said later.
SHANGHAI NIGHTS tackled the pacemaker GINGERELLA at the 300m and the pair
were going head-to-head at the 100m when ROBBERY SON, having gained momentum
quite suddenly, charged home on their outside.
ROBBERY SON left his rivals standing and drew away to win by 2 3/4 lengths
and paid RM53.
It was the second outing for the eight-year-old under his new trainer Siva
Kumar a/l
D.Subramaniam, a complete reversal of form when he finished last a
month ago.
"I did not know much about the horse then and the rider also did not ride to
my instructions," said Siva. "Today, I used a crossed nose-band on the horse
and it helped."
Wong, who was riding the horse for the first time, said:
"After jumping, the horse showed no pace at all. But
in the straight, he changed strides and flashed home like a top class
horse."
ROBBERY SON was sold for US$220,000 as a
yearling and raced in Canada at three and four, winning five races at
Woodbine.
Brought over to Singapore, ROBBERY SON managed three placings in 10 runs
without winning at Kranji before moving to Malaysia. He had two wins in six
runs for trainer Johnny Lim joining Siva earlier this year.
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