Eruption Ready To Explode

Trainer Moy's smart Buffalo Stable-owned galloper looms as a threat in the 4YO races

- Brian Miller

Racegoers at Sungai Besi should be in for a treat when the Four-Year-Old Sprint Championship comes up on June 15.

Invariably, there will be a bully in the pack, as it has often been the case when such aged series are contested.

This year, the big boy in this feature over the 1,200m event appears to be Antipodean.

With a rating of 103 and 10 wins from 15 outings – that last one coming on April 5 – Antipodean should start as the logical favourite in the showcase event.

But the son of Derryn, who has recorded nine of his wins for Simon Dunderdale and only one for his current trainer, Tiang Kim Choi, might have his work cut out.

Emerging from the training track on the morning of June 10, a couple of runners threw down the gauntlet. They could be the ones out to spoil the party for Antipodean.

In particular, take note of Eruption and Big Union.

Sure, they are both considered "lesser lights" on the big stage but, if allowed to throw in some punches, they both could do damage.

Eruption would have gone into the notebooks of many at trackside when he ran the 600m in 37.6sec, while Big Union did not put a hoof wrong when disposing of that same trip in an easy 40.6sec.