FEDERATION breaks through for his First Singapore win
Fortuna Syndication’s Three Year Old Gelding, FEDERATION (Written Tycoon-Bloomingdale Miss) dominated his rivals in the S$75,000 Restricted Maiden event at Singapore’s Kranji race course on New Years Day
FEDERATION was sent out a very warm favourite by punters, this on the back of a very promising Singapore debut run by the horse in early December and a strong winning trial 24th December. Drawn beautifully in Barrier 3 and ridden by Singapore Champion jockey, Vlad Duric, FEDERATION jumped from the barriers nicely and Duric soon had him cruising along in 3rd place on the rails. Urged up before the turn to secure a rails run inside the leader, FEDERATION maintained a strong gallop to the line, winning the event by a 2.5 length margin in a time of 1.12.74 on the Poly Track.
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“Federation” Victorious at Kranji – 01 January 2019
FEDERATION was secured by Fortuna Director, John Galvin, at the Inglis Digital on line sale (May 2018) for A$90,000 from Vendors, The China Horse Club, following a recommendation by Fortuna Singapore Trainer, Mark Walker. “Mark had identified this horse, who had had four placings from four starts in New South Wales as a Two Year Old, as an ideal type for Singapore racing, He had a lovely pedigree, was big and strong and had performed well as a 2yo,” reports John Galvin. “We think he is a quality horse in the making and so the Singapore Three Year Old Series, run between March and May 2019 would be an obvious target for him.”
Fortuna’s Singapore Trainer, Te Akau Racing’s Mark Walker, secured his first win for the 2019 season with FEDERATION. Walker, a five time Premiership winning Trainer in NZ and a two time winning Trainer in Singapore, was ecstatic with the victory. “He has always shown plenty of promise, this boy, he seems to be very talented and we are looking forward to see how he progresses from here. Congratulations to the Fortuna Team – John Galvin and I go back a long way, I trained his first Te Akau winner for him back in 2003 and we have enjoyed much success together over the years, both in NZ an Singapore.”
FEDERATION is raced by the Fortuna Federation Syndicate, an ownership group of 38 Individuals – the syndicate Membership has an International flavour to it, with members from NZ, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. 14 of those individuals experienced their first ever win with a Fortuna Syndicate