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A swift field of sprinters will assemble for the tenth race today at Kranji and one of them is unbeaten since coming to Singapore and shooting for six straight wins.
Super Easy has earned all the superlatives since coming to Singapore winning five races in a row starting with a Class Four up to a G2 last start over 1400m in the E W Barker Trophy.
Just look at some of the names such as Ato, The Comedian, Gingerbread Man, Zac Influence, Waikato, Ghozi and Perfect Pins he beat home in that feature race.
He has won twice on the poly and thrice on the turf.
He has run fast time and won with ease plus every start Joao Moreira has sat atop, as he will do so again today much to the delight of bank interest bettors.
Michael Freedman prepares the three-year-old gelding by Darci Brahma and it would be hard to imagine any trainer ever having such a potent team of racehorses as he currently does at Singapore.
An average galloper is a rarity in his stable and the firepower by all reports will keep coming and delivering at Kranji, so he is a chance to win the training premiership in 2012.
Super Easy is meeting an open class 1200m field for S$125K today and has already scared a couple away it seems having drawn gate two with just 51.5kg to carry.
The unbeaten streak can continue now that his proven star stablemate Better Be The One has been withdrawn along with the pressure-applying Excavator, so we are now down to a field of six.
I could not see Better Be The One being able to give Super Easy a whopping 7.5kg buffer and a defeat anyway.
Super Easy has had two trials towards his outing today and looked a ball of muscle each time so whatever beats him will win.
The five other rivals left still sees included a couple of serious poly performers in Ato and Rapido Star.
Ato has drawn gate three and is getting 1.5kg from Super Easy, with the Pat Shaw trained sprinter having a record of two wins from three poly outings and overall is a five-time winner at 1200m.
The poly proven Rapido Star for Leticia Dragon has won three of his four career successes in Singapore on the all weather track.
His complete record on the poly is three wins and as many placings from seven starts on it with the miss coming at G3 when drawn wide where the winner was Ato.
He and Ato do look like completing the trifecta with Super Easy.
Also in the field we have the evergreen sprinter Capablanca claiming down 2kg to be 50.5kg and the ten-year-old marvel last carried such a lightweight in June of 2011.
It just so happens that was the last time he won a race too.
He is a turf specialist though with fourteen wins on the grass and just a couple on the poly.
Éclair Fastpass has won his races only on the turf and has been on the poly just twice for no return.
The slick sprinter has not raced since May of last year when second at G1 behind Rocket Man in the Krisflyer.
He has trialled twice recently and does have a fresh up win in his resume but the son of Fastnet Rock does look to be in a real poly-drag race here.
Dragon World has the ace barrier but has never won on the poly and it does not seem he will here either.
Can we see Super Easy do again what comes natural and that is win?
He certainly can and there is a good argument to say he should never have been beaten in eight lifetime starts as I actually think his fourth in New Zealand this very weekend one year ago was colossal in the Karaka Million at Ellerslie.
The other time he got beaten was a lip by the top filly and dual G1 winner Anabandana, which will resume in Melbourne next month.
Enjoy the race and the attempt to make it six-for-six in a six-horse field at Singapore.
