Getting Up To Southern Speed

Lim's Fuji, Pacific Snoopy and Written Towin also toss in good workouts on June 11

- Brian Miller

Kuala Lumpur racing fans are in for 13 races, including three features—the Four-Year-Old Sprint Championship, the Charity Cup and the Korea Racing Authority Trophy.

If anything, the programme on offer says it is worth the trek to the Selangor Turf Club in Sungai Besi on June 15.

A pity if you cannot make it as there are several exciting races on the card.

And, as a sort of preview, some of the runners with assignments on the undercard were out strutting their stuff on the training track on the morning of June 11.

Impressive among them were the quartet of Southern Speed, Lim's Fuji, Written Towin and Pacific Snoopy.

All came away with flying colours.

Especially Southern Speed.

Entered in Race 3, the Richard Lim-trained-and-owned galloper worked like a winner, clocking a smart time of 38.8sec for the 600m trip.

That workout told us that he is holding that last-start winning form.

Flashback to June 1 and Southern Speed put up a dogged front-running show, leading from the get-go to hold off Healthy Baby. He took the race by the narrowest of margins—a nose.

It was his fourth win and his first at his new home up north.

Although already a seven-year-old, this son of I Am Invincible still manages to reinvent himself as a lion when on a racetrack.