SMART DUO JOIN LIM'S ELITE BAND

Elite Captain and Elite Prince salute in style while Combustion burns up the sand track

- Brian Miller

When we hear the word "elite" it is usually referring to something special. Like, top of the class or, the cream of the crop.

Well, on the morning of May 6, the cream certainly rose to the top at the trials run off at the Selangor Turf Club.

Elite Captain took the opener in dominant fashion and Elite Prince followed suit when he stole the show in the second hit-out of the morning.

The wins from the two Elite horses owned by Mahalinggam Palanisamy must have given their trainer Richard Lim a bit of a spring to his step.

The jockey-turned-trainer has endured a rather quiet time of late, having returned empty-handed from his last six race meetings. Boomba was the last winner — and ninth for 2025 — the former Kranji-based trainer led in on April 12.

Lim had three runners involved in two of the four May 6 trials with his third racer, Legend Sixty-Three, taking second to stable-mate Elite Prince in Trial No. 2.

The Penang-born conditioner is famous for riding King And King to victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Cup, more notably, thereafter shaking hands with the British monarch, who was at Kranji to witness the race.