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Sun Mirage lands the RDA Cup

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.

Sun Mirage winning the RDA CUP 2017 CLASS 4
Sun Mirage winning the RDA CUP 2017 CLASS 4 Picture: Singapore Turf Club

Last year’s champion apprentice always held the Statue Of Liberty four-year-old in touch with the frontrunning line before stoking him up in the straight where he, however, still had a major challenge ahead.

Short-priced favourite and juvenile Group 2 winner (Aushorse Golden Horseshoe) Lim's Racer (Danny Beasley) was about to draw on level terms with race-leader Changbai Mountain (Mohd Firdaus) in a decisive move that at that point looked a no-brainer towards a first-up win at her racing comeback.

But the lack of racing fitness eventually told on the Red Giant three-year-old who was the one to come off the worse from the tussle, even struggling to get past Changbai Mountain. Not Sun Mirage ($16), who kept grinding it out to finish over the top of the duelling pair and score with three parts of a length to spare from Changbai Mountain with Lim’s Racer third another half-a-length away.

The winning time was 1min 10.16secs for the 1200m on the Short Course.

Wong, who has partnered the Cheng Ting Kong-owned sprinter at all his starts bar two, said that Lim’s Racer was the main danger, but if there was any chance of lowering her boom, the plan was not to get run off their feet too early.

“The pace was fast and I didn’t want to be too far away as he’s only got a short burst,” said the Malaysian rider.

“He was making up good ground at the 600m, and he kept finding to win a nice race.”

Koh praised the top apprentice jockey for his stellar handling of his third winner for the season. The Singaporean later rounded up a double three events later with Knight Spirit who had Koh Teck Huat astride in the $35,000 Class 5 race over 2000m.

“There was a good pace to the race. He settles better in his races now,” said Koh the trainer about Sun Mirage.

“CC knows this horse well and knew what he had to do. It was a perfect ride.

“It’s great to train a winner in a race named after an association who does a great job for the disabled.”

Sun Mirage has now taken his record to two wins and five placings from 10 starts for stakes money around the $90,000 mark for the Macau-based Mr Cheng.


Singapore Turf Club

Kranji Sunday, 15th January 2017

5f212y TURF GOOD
SGD $60,000

RDA CUP 2017 CLASS 4

SGD $60,000
Type: RBH44-61
5f212y TURF GOOD
FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 5. SUN MIRAGE (AUS) 4yo G
STATUE OF LIBERTY (USA) - ROCKA MIRAGE (AUS)
C C WONG
DESMOND KOH
$3.2
54.5kg
CHENG TING KONG

Sales Information

2nd 12. SO ON (AUS) 4yo G
I AM INVINCIBLE (AUS) - SUNSET BOULEVARD (AUS)
M FIRDAUS
SHANE DONALD BAERTSCHIGER
$14.8
49.5kg
SOO SIW ENG

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3rd 3. LIM'S RACER (NZ) 3yo F
RED GIANT (USA) - LADY OF THE GARTER (AUS)
DANNY BEASLEY
STEVEN BURRIDGE
$1.6
56.5kg
LIM'S STABLE

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4th 7. ASTROSPEED (AUS) 4yo G
MURTAJILL (AUS) - FLEXIBILITY (AUS)
S SHAFRIZAL
MICHAEL CLEMENTS
$66.2
51.5kg

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5th 10. ARION (NZ) 4yo G
BACHELOR DUKE (USA) - EYENO (NZ)
WS CHAN
THEODORE KIESER
$44.6
51.5kg
6th 4. AUSSIE EAGLE (NZ) 4yo G
SUFFICIENT (NZ) - SO TAKE THAT (NZ)
VLAD DURIC
STEVEN BURRIDGE
$40.8
56kg

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7th 9. RED GENERAL (AUS) 4yo G
LOPE DE VEGA (IRE) - FREE DIG (AUS)
DAN SUBRAMANIAM
L KHOO
$71.4
52.5kg

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8th 8. HUN YEANG VILLAGE (NZ) 5yo G
MR NANCHO (ARG) - SHEZABELLA (NZ)
JOHN SUNDRADAS
YEOH KHENG SOON SONNY
$44.8
53.5kg

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9th 1. GANNET (GB) 5yo G
DUKE OF MARMALADE (IRE) - GRADUATION (GB)
GERALD MOSSE
MARK WALKER
$35.2
58.5kg

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10th 11. Q NINE MAGIC (NZ) 6yo G
GUILLOTINE (NZ) - SKAG WAY (NZ)
C K NG
MARK WALKER
$71
47.5kg
11th 6. DICAPRIO (NZ) 3yo G
PINS (AUS) - CLERMONT PRINCESS (NZ)
OSCAR CHAVEZ
LAURIE LAXON
$14.2
54kg

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12th 2. RAINBOW ROYAL (AUS) 3yo G
CAPTAIN SONADOR (AUS) - JUST HILDA (AUS)
KASIM A'ISISUHAIRI
ALVIN TAN
$11.6
57kg

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