Ultra impressive first up winner Darc Bounty steps up in grade this evening but appears well placed to make it back to back in the final event at Singapore.

Vlad Duric holds last-start winner Chariots Of Fire in high esteem even if he is aware that the penny has not fully dropped yet.

Panasonic Kranji Mile-winning trainer Cliff Brown was not exactly oozing a lot of confidence ahead of the next task at hand, this Sunday’s $700,000 Group 1 Raffles Cup (1800m).

Iconnic is misspelled deliberately as it is actually an anagram of his sire Nicconi, but the promising three-year-old was in no mood to mess around on Sunday when he lapped his rivals in the $65,000 Initiation race over 1200m.

Jockey Matthew Kellady can do no wrong at the moment as the in-form rider notched his eighth winner in just seven weeks when he steered debutant One United to victory in The Qantas Stakes on Friday.