Brett Prebble riding Absolutely wins the Singapore Airlines A380 London Stakes. Source: Neville Hopwood / Getty Images
AUSTRALIAN trainers and jockeys dominated Singapore's biggest day of racing as Hong Kong based Brett Prebble created history by winning his second consecutive KriyFlyer International Sprint at Lucky Nine at Kranji.
In a night of contrasting fortunes for the Australians, former Sturt footballer Jeremy Gask, who now trains in England, had his mount Medicean Man scratched behind the barriers after it pulled off a glue-on shoe.
Medicean Man, who was to be ridden by Damien Oliver, could not be replated behind the barriers because Gask did not want the horse, which has a history of hoof problems. shod with nails.
Lucky Nine could be headed back to Australia to have another crack at the Manikato Stakes, which he ran a narrow second in last year, but the horse failed up the Flemington straight last spring in the VRC Sprint.
Medicean Man (foreground) was scratched in Singapore. Source: Getty Images
Hong Kong based trainer Caspar Fownes said he would not race the horse on a track that didn't have a turn.
"It was a big effort again, he's blown them away," Fownes said.
"We were a bit unlucky in the Manikato, so we'd like to go back and see if we can nail that.
"It depends – we either go back there or go to Japan.
One of the attractions for Fownes is Moonee Valley's tight contours and the fact Lucky Nine is superior around a bend than down a straight.
"Absolutely," Fownes said when asked if Lucky Nine preferred to race around a bend.
"No more straight racing for him."
Prebble admitted he had a few sleepless nights and said he was at first sceptical about Lucky Nine going back-to-back.
But he said he grow more confident with the realisation that Lucky Nine was better than this time last year.
The Australian contingent dominated the rich program, winning eight of the first nine races.
Former Victorian trainer Cliff Brown, now based at Kranji, took just the opening three races to notch up a double. Brown's Zac Spirit ran third in the KrisFlyer.
He combined with the now Hong Kong based champion jockey Joao Moreira to win the opening race.
And it was left to former top Australian jockey Corey Brown to win the second race, while the Aussie flag flew again in the third race when Brett Prebble, now based in Hong Kong, rode Brown's Absolutely to victory.
Corey Brown, on Twickenham, got over the top of Damien Oliver's Eagle Storm on the line in the fifth race, after the Aussies failed in the previous races.
And Zac Purton, who heads the Hong Kong jockeys' premiership, rode Kate's Keeper to victory in the sixth race.
Beasley had to wait for the seventh race to ride his first winner, Martin, for New Zealand's Laurie Laxton who trained 1988 Melbourne Cup winner Empire Rose.
He then completed a winning double in the following race when he teamed with another of Australia's Kranji based trainers, Shane Baertschiger to win.
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