Jockey Manoel Nunes and trainer Mahadi Taib are not a combination often seen at Kranji.
For a start, it is a well-known fact that the five-time Singapore champion jockey is not easy to get as he is almost always booked out by the leading yards.
The Singaporean trainer is not among them. He does helm a sizeable stable of 34 horses, but most of them are second-tier stock.
All up, Nunes has ridden only six times, half of them on Bureaucrat, for the third-year trainer, without any success thus far.
Two of the rare pairings came on Red Dragon. A third place in a Class 4 race (1,700m) at the Redwood five-year-old's last start on Jan 14 was their best result.
The fact that the Brazilian is back aboard in a similar event on Feb 17 is a good omen to Mahadi.
"It's difficult to get Nunes on my horses, but he's the one who kept asking when Red Dragon will run. I suppose he likes him," said Mahadi.
"He's ridden him in trackwork only once as he's also very busy in the morning.
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