Be with a buddy on the poly at Kranji

Singapore racing continues this Sunday featuring an 11-race Polytrack card. Promising fouryear-old Sacred Buddy can make amends for his narrow last-start defeat when he returns to Kranji in the $75,000 Novice race over 1200m.

Purchased for merely $800, Sacred Buddy has proven to be a good bargain, with his prize money already surpassing $20,000 from only two starts. The son of Sacred Falls outperformed market expectation with an easy debut win in early November, before finishing a luckless second last time out.

On that occasion, the Desmond Koh-trained gelding raced wide, still fighting tenaciously in the straight but going down by a short head on the line. The winner of that race, standout three-yearold Silo, who is off to Hong Kong to continue his career, won again, which bodes well for Sacred Buddy to land his second career win this week.

Out to spoil the party for Sacred Buddy are a host of lightly raced horses, including trainer Tim Fitzsimmons' pair Eruption and Lucky Hero.

Three-year-old Eruption scored his first career win in Open Maiden company two starts ago and backed it up with a second-place finish in a race of this nature. Lucky Hero races first-up off an excusable last-start ninth- place finish after racing wide as favourite. He tries the Polytrack for the first time, but always trials well on the surface.

In Race 1, keep an eye on fouryear-old Wins One. Formerly named Foreshadow and trained by Shane Baertschiger, Wins One is making his first start for Jason Ong.

He was last seen returning to Class 5, where he started as the $12 favourite over 1400m on turf. With Ong's proven record in improving stable transfers, Wins One's form could get a turnaround. –