Special King should relish the drop back in trip when he lines up in the Class 4 over 1100m on the Polytrack at Kranji on Friday.

Trainer Desmond Koh’s two ‘black type’ winners Guru-Guru and Order Of The Sun are back into the fray this Friday and will both saddle up in the same race again.

Good News bounced back to winning form and inflicted a second straight defeat on progressive sprinter Lincoln Road at Kranji on Sunday.

Lincoln Road tasted his first defeat in Singapore last start but is expected to bounce right back in this evening's Korean Racing Authority Trophy.

Ability was something that Nova Warrior was not known to have in short supply, but the way he spreadeagled supposedly tougher rivals when brought back to turf on Sunday has suddenly cast him in a new light.