ANIKI SIZZLES IN SWIFT WORKOUT

Last Supper and Forest Gold draw attention to their chances in upcoming assignments

- Brian Miller

Trainer Leslie Khoo is a quiet achiever. He seldom makes the headlines and, when his horses do good, you do not hear him beating a drum and shouting it out from the rooftops.

The former top local jockey just puts his shoulder to the wheel and gets on with the job.

Well, Khoo could have bragging rights on Sept 28. As usual, he will be represented by a small team. Indeed, he has only two runners - Aniki in the main race of the day, a Class 3 1,200m affair, and Charismatic in the Class 5 sprint over 1,200m - in the Sept 28 meeting. Of the two, Aniki could be the one who brings home the bacon.

He turned in a winning gallop on the morning of Sept 24 and, if he carries that form to the races, could make it a pillar-to-post affair on Sept 28.

Back to that workout, Aniki had Bruno Queiroz in the saddle and the pair did not leave anything to the imagination.

Taking off from the back straight, the Outreach five-year-old turned up the tempo and brought his Brazilian rider home in a really fast time of 34.6sec for the 600m.

It was a staggering time - one of the fastest seen on the training track recently and Khoo, who took over Aniki from Alwin Tan in June, could already be dreaming of what could just be his seventh winner for the season.