Fortuna’s HIDDEN PROMISE breaks through for his first win in Singapore

Fortuna’s John Galvin had a bit of a chuckle after watching HIDDEN PROMISE’s Maiden win at Singapore’s Kranji race course Sunday 19th February, “Hidden Promise is a great name for him, because he has been a very slow maturing horse who had us scratching our heads at times during his preparations in NZ and Singapore, but he delivered the ‘promise’ tonight.” he said.

Showing steady improvement in each of his four starts prior to his Maiden victory, HIDDEN PROMISE, a 4yo gelding by Postponed out of the Zabeel mare, Promissory, drew nicely in Barrier One in the 1699 metre Class 5 event on Kranji’s turf track. Ridden by Te Akau Racing’s stable apprentice R Zawari, he covered not an ounce of extra ground one back on the rail. Steadily bought into the race by his rider after a hot pace was set by the two leaders, Zawari pulled HIDDEN PROMISE out to the centre of the track to challenge with what looked like a winning run. Inexplicably, the horse (nicknamed “Bart”) ducked back to the inside and finished up on the running rail. Undeterred, he kept finding, poked through on the inside of other runners and went to the line to score by a long neck in the good time of 1.35.62. Click HERE to see race replay

Trained in Singapore by Te Akau Racings, Mark Walker the 2016 Singapore Champion Trainer, HIDDEN PROMISE was selected by David Ellis on behalf of Fortuna at the 2014 NZ Bloodstock Ready to Run Sale from the draft of Westbury Stud for the price of $65,000. John Galvin also paid tribute to Te Akau Racing’s NZ Trainers, Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards, who prepared HIDDEN PROMISE in NZ before he went to Singapore, ” Steve and Jamie kept saying to me ‘he’ll be right – just needs time and maturity to show his best’ – they did a great job,” he said.

HIDDEN PROMISE is owned by the Fortuna Hidden Promise Syndicate, an ownership group of 28 individuals