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A lower key meeting on the short course turf track tonight at Kranji doesn't mean you cannot cash in and I would suggest the early bettor captures the winnings.
The second race on the card tonight sees a perfect storm brewing for a class dropper with turf credentials to back it up.
Raging Storm has 58.5kg and barrier eleven in the S$55K Class Four over 1200m and what beats the Stephen Gray trained and Saimee Jumaat ridden gelding should win.
The six-year-old gelding has won three races in his twenty-eights starts and been placed ten times.
He won once in Australia but also for a class perspective was Listed placed on debut behind Sebring, which won five of six and missed the juvenile Triple Crown narrowly.
The horse that beat him from capturing the Golden Slipper, Sires Produce and Champagne Stakes Triple Crown was none other than a wonderful whopping filly called Samantha Miss that was good enough to place in a G1 Cox Plate as a 3yo filly.
Once you narrow down the Raging Storm record at Kranji he has won twice and placed six times in nineteen outings.
He passes every worthwhile form analysis test after that in regards to the right time and conditions to back him, which is now.
His turf record in Singapore is eight starts for a win and five placings and his two misses, which were still commendable efforts, came in Class Three.
Raging Storm is fresh up tonight in Class Four and has trialled up a quiet treat twice for Saimee towards resuming.
The record of Raging Storm in Class Four sees four outings for two wins, a second beaten narrowly by the useful Rapido Star and a fourth at his first Singapore start.
He has never been beaten more than a length and a half in Class Four.
The gelding ran against Class Three in all of his six starts last campaign, with a couple of placings to show including a second to the unbeaten Super Easy.
What else in this field tonight could seriously finish second beaten three lengths behind Super Easy?
The last win by Raging Storm came a year ago and in a Class Three on the turf drawn barrier ten and carrying 57.5kg, where he demolished the field by two and a half lengths.
Several from the race have since won multiple times.
If the Class Four tonight comes down to a power battle then you want to be on the proven thunder and lightning.
Charly B is not very big but he can do some work in the running and still fight on, so include the Pat Shaw trained four-year-old Agentinian bred.
He has not had much luck at all of late with wide or awkward barriers and tonight is no different having drawn nine and with 57.5kg to carry.
The gelding can dispute the pace and make it a true test or track wide and keep coming plus the way he won a trial earlier in the week suggested a category Charly B hurricane was forming for racenight tonight.
A couple of former New Zealand trained gallopers make some appeal with a slight preference for A Cut Above over Mel.
A Cut Above has had a run in Singapore and ran on rather well when out into clear air for fifth behind the handy Sichuan Ruler.
This gelding won his maiden second up in New Zealand and bar a few hiccups would have run again since in Singapore.
I like the fact Opie Bosson gets on here after an apprentice rode fresh up, as you cannot beat experience in a mad dash like this race promises to be.
Mel or King Cobanna as he was formerly known won two of his five starts in New Zealand and is now in the powerful Laurie Laxon stable and will be ridden by Joao Moreira, who is on record breaking pace this season already.
The four-year-old should run a middle distance and is a proven swimmer should any wet tracks come his way at Kranji, which is a fair bet in itself.
He is a half-brother to numerous multiple winners including the dual G1 winning mare Coco Cabanna (won up to 2600m), so a Derby campaign this year looks likely.
A barrier trial win last month with Moreira in the saddle showed Mel was more than ready to make an impression in Singapore for the Oscar Racing Stable.
Take note the blinkers are applied fresh up, so thunderbirds are go it seems.
Lucky Diamond has a decent turf record and strikes best either first or second up, so even with a wide draw tonight the resumer is a chance.
A 3kg claim makes his weight an appealing 53.5kg and he has had plenty of trials in preparation.
Probo Chandroso drawn the inside stall and claiming 1kg is possible value in the race and do not believe his turf record of four starts for nothing is what it seems.
His last start fresh up effort was far better than it can ever read and three starts ago the gelded son of boom sire Fastnet Rock did finish fourth beaten two lengths.
The other two times he has tried the turf saw a seventh and an eighth but in the former we saw Éclair Fastpass beat Gingerbread Man and in the latter Mr Timely beat none other than Raging Storm.
That is a nice segway into the selection summary.
No need to be a storm chaser that you see on the television heading straight at the ferocious forming funnel clouds but you can create a whirlpool of winnings yourself tonight by backing Raging Storm in the second event.
Enjoy the race and the weather wager.
