Superior warms up for Singapore

Superior Premium returns to action at Newmarket next week en-route to a tilt at the valuable Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Sprint on May 12th.

The seven-year-old won the Cork And Orrery Stakes at Royal in fine style last year, and trainer Richard Fahey reports: 'The horse is in very good form and the plan is to run him in the Abernant Stakes first.

'It is not really the ideal race for him as he gets a 10lb penalty, but there are not many opportunities for him and we want to get a run into him before we go to Singapore.'

The KrisFlyer Sprint is over six furlongs on turf at Kranji and Tim Easterby`s filly Pipalong was among the original nominations but she will not be making the trip out there.

Fahey went on: 'Superior Premium will be our first runner there and it will be a good experience, but the money is good too with a first prize of stg£230,000 - and if he showed the form he did at Ascot then he would have to have a chance.

'He is the right horse for the jobtoo, he is a very good traveller - they said that when we took him to Taby in Sweden when he was in the box for 22 hours, everybody told me that he would need a couple of days before we cantered him.

'But he was so well in himself the next morning that we were able to canter him so we should not have any worries about the trip.'

Fahey`s smart filly Inforapenny, who finished third to Petrushka in the Irish Oaks at the Curragh last year, has been retired to the paddocks.

The Malton trainer added: 'I was looking forward to running her again this year and I think she would have stayed and made a Cup horse.

'But she is Classic-placed and her owners felt that it was the best to retire her now - and you can`t blame them.'