RICH N POWERFUL IS STILL GOING STRONG

Bold Runner and Popeyethesailorman also show their wares at the KL trials on Nov 26

- Brian Miller

The margin was just a nose but the manner in which Rich N Powerful went about winning that race on Nov 2 would have earned her a bus-load of fans.

Always behind the leading pack in that 1,020m sprint in Sungai Besi, she found an opening when the field fanned out for the run home.

Not one to sneer at an opportunity, the Dream Ahead mare took it graciously and settled to do battle with Xanthos.

In a heads-up, heads-down battle to the line, Xanthos looked to have the upper hand. But Rich N Powerful refused to be cowed by that brazen gelding.

She kept up the fight and got her nose right where her jockey Nazir Aiman wanted it to be - on the line and in front of Xanthos.

At her 12th start in Malaysia, she had her second win on the board and trainer Tan Eng Peow had his 17th for the season, having scored his 16th with Brandenburg two races earlier on Nov 2.

Yes, it was a good day at the office for the 47-year-old handler who is in his second season as a full-fledged trainer.

Tan can pull off another win on Dec 1 when Rich N Powerful takes on a Class 4 (A) field (1,020m).