5 November, Kuala Lumpur

Despite the lack of quantity of races on Saturday, there was certainly no lack of excitement and quality as R NUQMAN provided a brilliant ride on Sacred Judgement when fighting off, the heavily backed, Lim’s Craft in race 3. 

Sacred Judgement jumped on speed but allowed Pride of Santos to join next to him for company and was able to settle just off the leaders girth. It was a close and compact field with a few runners stalking the pace and peeling off to the outside at the top of the straight in order to get a run which included Lim’s Craft who looked like

one of the better bets of the afternoon. However, R Nuqman wasn’t pressured into quickening up the speed and made sure if any horse was to go past him, they’d have to work for it.

The race unfolded at the top of the straight when Lim’s Craft made his run towards the middle of the track and slowly started to cut back the deficit with every stride and actually went past Sacred Judgement in the final 200m. It was a head bobbing duel with nothing separating the two but under a hard and determined ride by the 27-year-old, he was able to lift the SY LIM trained runner to win on the line. 

You can watch the replay of the race here. Racing returns to the Selangor Turf Club on Sunday the 10th of November.

Devon Pretorius