Super Baby Is Ready For Top Show

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- Brian Miller

Trainer Jerome Tan, whose last winner was Schneider in the penultimate race on Feb 23, could be making tracks to the winner's enclosure on March 1.

The Singaporean can achieve that, provided Super Baby brings his training form to the racetrack.

The four-year-old son of Deep Field looked like a good thing at his last start on Feb 16.

Backed down to second pick in the Class 3 race, he was always travelling well under Shafiq Rizuan but the Australian bay could not fire up over the concluding stages of that 1,400m contest. He had to settle for fourth behind the winner Emerald Lisi.

If you backed him and were looking for excuses, perhaps you could pin the blame on the distance. Super Baby might have found the 1,400m a tad too sharp.

While he has won once over that distance in a Class 5 race in Singapore on April 13, 2024, three of his five wins at Kranji were over longer trips, of which twice were on the 1,600m and once on the 1,700m.

Looking back at Super Baby's last start at Kranji - which was on Oct 5, 2024 - he ran a terrific race when third behind Te Akau Ben. That Class 3 race was run over the 1,600m.