Small fields can be sweet for bettors if the scent of success is obvious and overpowering.

Six runners will contest Race Six tonight, the feature event on the card at Kranji, the S$95K Open Benchmark over 1600m on the poly and not one of the runners is totally on the nose from a betting standpoint.

Parfumier is the oldest runner in the race but is also the class act and this nine-year-old of the Eau du Equine vintage does look set to atomize his opposition in a few home straight sprays or strides this evening.

The very much in form Michael Freedman stable will line up Parfumier not having raced for five weeks but showed eight days ago in a trial win, which came in decent time too, that he is in fine fettle.

Joao Moreira, who has taken the buzzword 'winning' to a new sitcom-Sheen level considering how effortlessly the tally climbs each week, remarkably only has six rides tonight from a nine race card.

Bettors will be asking 'say it ain't so, Joao', as he has been filling the pockets to the brim of punters lately and is the turnover titan of Kranji bar Rocket Man, who is back shortly to launch a Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong triple thrust.

Moreira rode Parfumier in the trial and will be atop tonight for the first time on racenight but he is making a habit of just winning on whatever he gets aboard these days.

The topweight of 58.5kg is not a game changer, as Parfumier can carry such an impost, but it may be the vast gap down to a couple of full 4kg claimers in the field that could pose a tactical/tempo problem.

Two of the rivals of Parfumier could have a staggering 12.5kg and 10kg less respectively in King Faalcon and U Got It, and the latter is a natural on pacer and the former a backrunner but it can move very early.

Parfumier has raced just once on the poly since coming to Singapore and the result was a second beaten half a length over the mile under 58kg at G3, where the winner was Better Than Ever.

Repeat that performance and career high rating to date in Singapore and Parfumier will outclass his opposition tonight.

It is unusual for a nine-year-old to reproduce such a high rating equalizer in another country that mirrors the peaks of his Australian career when younger but Parfumier is a special horse for owner Gerry Harvey.

Even on the turf three starts back we saw Parfumier finish third to a rival again tonight in Maurice Utrillo, in an open mile, where he was beaten two lengths at the post.

He had 4kg more than the winner and this evening will have just 1.5kg more to carry, so it is not hard to see the gap not only closed but a margin swinging into his favour on the poly.

Superczar when he is in an all conquering mood can put a field away in a few strides halfway up the home straight and the Benchmark 97 tonight with 50kg does look an opportunity to win his tenth race.

He is the second oldest runner in the field behind Parfumier and this eight-year-old does like the mile trip.

Superczar seems to follow a pattern of being run in a sprint far too short for him then performs majestically to win the next time out, which is the target event.

The S$95K mile tonight is in the cross hairs of trainer David Hill and the career of Superczar is littered with this exact pattern of crouch then engage since the Rugby World Cup is almost upon us!

Three of his last four wins have been preceded by a 1000m-1100m outing and then a win at 1400m-1700m, so I see the pattern repeating this evening.

Two of the sudden jump-in-distance wins were a poly dash to a turf main target, while the 1000m to 1700m was a poly-to-poly successful plonk.

He ran in the 1000m at S$228 and then the 1700m nineteen days later at $78 or in Australian figures went from an A$46 outsider to a clear-cut A$17 victor.

Saifudin Ismail will ride for the second time tonight having ridden Superczar at his third ever start in Singapore way back in September of 2007.

Last start the sixth on poly beaten just under nine lengths saw Superczar run on okay in a blistering run and won 57.76 1000m by Northern Lion, which shattered the Kranji track record.

I know the torrid tempo will have helped a fit Superczar find the line but it was a real eyecatcher.

Two starts back he finished a game third on the poly to the then Derby hopefuls Tenzing and Steadfast Warrior and it is important to note a rival again tonight in King Faalcon was almost eight lengths in arrears.

Three starts back he won on the turf over 1400m easily, after sitting last, and beat into a distant second another rival tonight in U Got It.

Superczar carried 1kg less than U Got It, which was ridden by an apprentice as it will be this evening, and will have 1.5kg more for a weight swing against him of 2.5kg.

The poly factor does also help U Got It, as in three runs this year back from a spell the result was two wins and a close second.

Interestingly the wins came at 1200m and the close second over 1700m and the winner was a rival again in King Faalcon, which is the only time he has won on this surface being a noted turf stayer.

U Got It had 5kg less than King Faalcon and got bombed on the line, so tonight it will be the battle of the postage stamps as both are to be ridden by full claimers.

King Faalcon will have 2.5kg less than U Got It and that is a hefty 7.5kg swing from their last meeting but the 100m less is clearly in the favour of the latter.

Maurice Utrillo has only had one poly start and the result was a win this very time last year over 1900m and beat French Irish, which won well fresh up last week.

He has not quite performed up to his usual standard in the last two outings but had trialled up super prior and since finished a quiet fifth in a trial for the lethal Shaw and Vorster combination.

The mile is ideal for him and he has carried decent weights to victory and/or placings before albeit not in what looks as tactical a contest as this.

I see his ability to race handy or poised as an asset here should the race become a stop-start affair or what can get away with what in the running until the real pressure gets applied.

Collect The Cash has only tackled a mile once and finished a distant ninth but it came in the G1 Singapore Guineas in May last year, where Better Than Ever demolished Always Certain and that is serious form.

He is a much stronger horse this year plus is poly proven, with two outings on the all weather and should be unbeaten rather than having a win and a close second.

Mark Walker now trains Collect The Cash having taken him over from John Meagher and a win at 1400m two starts ago and a good second last time at the same trip behind the smart Arowana Dot Com has shown a more mature gelding.

Ron Stewart rides for the first time, which is telling as he has handled Superczar in the last three outings for a win and a placing.

Enjoy this small but intriguing field where the two oldest runners in the race just might be the boldest at the finish.