HEART OF FIRE BLOWS HOT AT KUALA LUMPUR BARRIER TRIALS

All Too Hard 6YO breaks minute mark when leading all the way

- Brian Miller

Heart Of Fire (Gordon Lim) clearing out for an easy win in his barrier trial at Sungei Besi on Oct 28. PHOTO: SELANGOR TURF CLUB

(SELANGOR TURF CLUB)

It has truly been a while between drinks, but trainer Winson Cheng Han Yong and the Tangi Stable are not the complaining types.

After all, Heart Of Fire has been diligently paying for his board and lodging.

Since putting together his third win on Jan 4, Heart Of Fire has not set the track ablaze. But, sure as ever, he has been doggedly working hard, like that showing at the trials on the morning of Oct 28.

Ridden by pre-apprentice jockey Gordon Lim and having to clear the outermost gate in that field of seven, he was away in a flash.

Indeed, such was his early pace that Heart Of Fire had, by the time the field made the first turn on the far side, opened a five-length lead.

Elite Prince, the mount of Shafiq Rizuan, tried to narrow the gap but the leader just kept on throwing dirt onto him.