Promising sprinter Lincoln Road faces another step up in grade at Kranji this evening but is expected to pass it with flying colours.

Apprentice Desmond Chan Wei Sheng felt on top of the world after he swooped down aboard Star General to upstage better-fancied rivals in the $60,000 Open Benchmark 67 race over 1100m on Friday night.

The Stephen Burridge trained Vanderbilt wasn't beaten far behind the talented The Nutcracker last start and can return to the winner's stall in the sixth event at Singapore this evening.

The Leslie Khoo trained Star General boasts some very strong collateral form and should be very hard to beat in the third event at Singapore this evening.

Group 2 winning sprinter The Nutcracker had created quite the "boom" at the trials and he proceeded to live up to expectations when too strong in his Singapore debut.