30 April 2026, Kuala Lumpur

All eyes will be on the return of Duma this Sunday as he returns to the Selangor Turf Club after a narrow defeat in the first leg of the Triple Crown Series in The Equine Sanctuary Tunku Gold Cup G1. In a field of 16 runners and drawn from barrier 13, it would have been a courageous victory had he got his head down in time, but was not disgraced by being beaten by a nose. Watching the slow motion replay, he was actually in front of Fortune Tree just before the line and well clear after the line however – Y Aify had Fortune Tree fully stretched out when it mattered most and managed to get the better of Duma on the day.

Sunday’s race is a lot weaker as he drops back in grade to the Supreme A class and on paper, there isn’t much that can match him on that Tunku Gold Cup run. He’s a class above this field and should take a power of beating from barrier 4 – with S Ruzaini in the saddle for the F Maynard stable. The biggest danger could potentially be the progressive Navarre from the S Dunderdale yard. Three starts for two wins and a second in the country so far is a handy record and the manner in which he won his last start shows there’s plenty of ability left in the tank when he stormed home to win by over 7 lengths. These two seem set to fight this out and it could be the quinella for race 8 on the day.

Sunday’s meeting is the first for the month of May and we start off with a card of 10 races on the program, with the first off at 12:55pm local time.

Devon Pretorius