Unfortunately horse racing in Malaysia has fallen into a state of disarray and has become unviable from a financial and racing perspective.
All group and feature races have been discontinued and stakes money has been dwindling downwards for many years.
The Selangor Turf Club, already the club with the lowest returns to owners has further reduced the stakes money in 2021. This is despite the new stream of revenue the club have developed by having races wagered on and televised in Australia and New Zealand.
The Penang Turf Club, which offers the highest levels of prize money has barred horses from Selangor from competing at Penang for the last few months. Previously horses trained outside of Penang were allowed to race in Penang but entries from outside trainers would be severely reduced.
The third club in Malaysia, the Perak Turf Club at Ipoh has on several recent occasions advertised a two day race meeting and at the last moment, has changed the program to a single day. This has occurred at the last minute despite there being near full fields for all races.
We've enjoyed our time racing in Malaysia with some success in the Piala Emas Sultan Selangor - 2000m with Trudeau and the Penang Yang Di Pertua Negiri Gold Cup - 2200 metres with Hint. Both horses were victorious as Singapore raiders when the feature races were cross border affairs.
Morales (9g Zizou x Love Attack) was sold late last year and our last two horses Cerdan (8g Danewin x Folie D'Ámour) and Mise En Garde (7m Dream Ahead x Dawn To Dusk) have been sold last week and will race on in the green and white racing color's of the Valiant Stable.
Cerdan, a five time winner who has the distinction of winning at each of the four Malayan Racing Association tracks was a particular favorite. Although moderately performed, he was bred by Arexevan Racing and is one of the last remaining progeny of Danewin still racing. Cerdan is also Golden Slipper winning jockey, Ben Melham's only winner in Singapore.
Click to watch Cerdan winning at Selangor Turf Club on the 23rd November,2019.