Heritage Sixty-One Can Get Off The Mark In M'sia

Trainer Abdullah's 3YO colt ready to go one better with good workout in Kuala Lumpur

- Brian Miller

The name "Abdullah Aboo Bakker" is not one that racegoers drop into their conversations when "talking horse" over their morning coffee. He is what one would call a "battling trainer".

The Singaporean handler has saddled just four winners for the season.

But, with four more months to go in the 2025 season, he could probably surpass his tally of four wins in 2024, albeit it could be a tougher ask to outdo his record of 30 winners in 2023.

On Aug 9, we saw him pull one out of the hat when Show All Sixty-One beat a Class 4A field over the 1,200m course at Sungai Besi.

That was after his stablemate Buuraq Sixty-One finished second to the talented Bold Runner in an earlier race.

Abdullah has entered a team of five, including emergency acceptor King Of Sixty-One, for the Aug 17 meeting. Among them, Heritage Sixty-One is ready to open his account.

The three-year-old colt, who races in the colours of the AJ'S Stable, tossed in a smart gallop on the morning of Aug 12 when running the 600m in 39.2sec.

An English-bred by Ardad, Heritage Sixty-One has had two runs for Abdullah, and he would have been pleased with that last-start effort on July 13.