With three big races to be run, one would think that attention on May 18 would be shared and spread three ways.
There is the prospect of watching superstar Lim's Kosciuszko in the Kranji Mile, Lim's Bighorn in the
Singapore Guineas and, perhaps, Ghalib in the Kranji Stakes A sprint.
But there is another galloper who could crash the party. We are talking about the very exciting Pacific Vampire.
He is down to contest the Class 3 race over 1,400m and, already, he has become coffee-shop fodder.
Over their coffee and soft-boiled eggs, bread-and-butter racegoers the salt of the earth have been toasting Kranji's latest find.
And they have been doing it with gusto. Come May 18, they will put their money where their mouths are and, by all reckoning, they should go away happy.
So far, the son of Impending has been a revelation. He has won two on the trot with aplomb and looks ship-shape to carve out another victory.
His trainer, Jason Ong, sent him out for a piece of work on May 14 and, on that bright sunny morning, he revelled.
Partnered by French jockey Marc Lerner, he looked a picture breezing over the 600m in 40.3sec.
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