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Progressive sprinter Perfect Charger now appears to be back on track following another impressive display when saluting at Singapore on Friday night.
Having failed to come up last preparation leading trainer Alvin Tan elected to spell the son of One Cool Cat and it has proceeded to pay dividends with the rising five-year-old remaining unbeaten this time in.
Having burst onto the scene back in May last year with three wins from his first four starts, Perfect Charger failed to salute at his next six starts, though the form behind Easy Man was quite strong.
With two mediocre performances prior to a spell he proceeded to bounced right back with a dominant display first up over 1000m.
Successful in recording a new career peak on that occasion, Perfect Charger would again go on to raise the bar when saluting easily on Friday night as the short priced favourite.
A noted on-pace runner, apprentice rider Joseph See summed up the race beautifully when taking a sit just off the Michael Freedman trained Sure Win in the early stages.
In what was clearly only a race in two rounding the turn for home, Perfect Charger travelled strongly inside the 300m before displaying a good turn of foot to pick up the leader and draw away for a dominant one-and-a-half length victory.
Given it was a further three-and-a-half lengths back to third, it really emphasised the dominance of his victory and the overall time quickly backed up this claim.
With a total of four races held on the polytrack, Perfect Charger recorded easily the quickest time of the night and was deemed to be three lengths superior.
His closing sectional was the second quickest of the night with the very short priced favourite Bellwether taking out those honours in the final event.
He has now improved five pounds this time in and is expected to improve a similar mark at his next outing given the ease of his latest victory.
Handy mare Gold Rutile was rewarded for her continued consistency when landing a somewhat upset victory in the feature event of the night, the Kranji Stakes A.
In what proved her first victory since November last year the daughter of Gold Halo proved too good for her more fancied rivals when digging in deep to narrowly defeat the Leslie Khoo trained Speedy Cat.
Despite a rising seven-year-old Friday's affair was only her fifteenth career start and given it was her fourth victory she does possess quite the handy record.
More notably she has placed on a further nine occasions and has continued to steadily improve throughout her career.
Successful in following up on her good effort first up behind Vertical Start, she proceeded to show good improvement and recorded a near career peak in the process.
Improving eight pounds on her previous best she does appear to be in for a good preparation this time in and is expected to improve further when stepped up to the mile and beyond.
Hideyuki Takaoka is renowned for his ability to train stayers and this mare does appear to be heading down that path this campaign.
She was tried over 1700m early on in her career in which she finished second though she hasn't been seen beyond 1400m at her past nine starts.
We expect that to change in the near future and given her low rating she is likely to be well placed at her next start and should be followed closely.
Despite beaten on Sunday evening we feel there is no reason to drop off the Leticia Dragon trained Raise No Doubt.
Sent out at a very well supported favourite the son of Not A Single Doubt proceeded to improve six pounds on his previous best despite being unable to repel the Alvin Tan trained Gato Negro.
Forced to give the winner six kilograms after Wei Li Tan's claim Raise No Doubt's performance had plenty of merit and given Dragon elected not to apply blinkers to the three-year-old we feel he will have more up his sleeve at his next outing.
Prior to the running of Sunday's event Raise No Doubt won a trial by ten lengths in blistering time when sporting blinkers and we now expect Dragon to make that gear change at his next start.
His performance on Sunday surpassed his previous best when formerly raced in Australia and we do expect that trend to continue in the near future.
All in all he has improved over 20 pounds since his debut victory in Singapore earlier this year and while many would have been burnt on him on the weekend he definitely deserves another chance.