Team Asogan Ready To Assert Power At Upcoming Ipoh Races

A Beautiful Mind and A Better Tomorrow Look Good in Hit-Outs

- Brian Miller

With the races at the Perak Turf Club coming up on May 11, slow work on the Ipoh training track was the order of the day as trainers sought to add the finishing touches to their runners.

The hard stuff had been done—mostly on the morning of May 6. But knowing that the runners needed a good stretch-out to keep their minds on the job ahead, the track was taken over by horses doing either serious cantering or some trotting on May 7 and 8.

Prominent among them were the runners from the stables of Asogan Thangaraju.

The Ipoh-based trainer cannot be faulted for a lack of effort. He has posted six wins from 62 starters for the 2025 season, and will saddle 10 racers this weekend.

Asogan and his staff were busy people on the morning of May 7 when most of his entries were put through their paces.

Two, in particular, caught the eye—A Better Tomorrow and A Beautiful Mind.

A Better Tomorrow is one of a quartet of runners from Asogan's barn who will face the starter in Race 3—the Class 5 (A) race to be run over the 1,600m.

Formerly with English trainer James Peters in Singapore, but now with the Malaysian handler, the Awesome Rock five-year-old won a very competitive Open Maiden event by two lengths at Kranji on March 17, 2024.

He has since been winless—but, again, not from a lack of trying.