20 September 2009

Eternal Wealth is the first progeny of little-known Australian sire Freeze (x Marscay) to race in Singapore, and is now his first winning advertisement too after he took out the $65,000 Panasonic Professional Plasma Stakes over 1200m, a race for Restricted Maidens (2&3YO) at the odds of $44.

Eternal Wealth (Soo Khoon Beng) capitalised on his barrier No 1 to draw clear at the 200m for a 1 �-length win over Big Bolt (Barend Vorster), with favourite Lira (Joao Moreira) winding up late for third another three parts of a length away.

�The owner (Mr Alan Tan, husband of Madam Jean Tan, who races Eternal Wealth), a friend Jeff and myself were at the Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sales last year and saw him as we walked past his stall,� said Dr Yeoh.

�We thought he looked beautiful and the owner liked him straightaway. I�ve never heard of the sire Freeze, but when I checked the book, I thought having speed in his genes would be good.

�It was a little dark when he went past his stall that day. So we went back to have another look and it was love at first sight.