NO SHOCK IF SILVER BOWL TURNS INTO POT OF GOLD

Trainer Koh’s last-start winner Flying Nemo humming along nicely for Group 3 feature

- Brian Miller

He had the pot boiling over when he came through to win that Class 31,400m race on May 18 by a nose.

For his backers - and there were not too many - it was a big payday.

Flying Nemo paid a whopping $281 for the win.

Even his trainer, Desmond Koh, was flabbergasted.

When asked to explain the gelding's "improved performance" on a yielding track, he reckoned Flying Nemo appreciated the track conditions and the pace of the event.

Nothing wrong there. We have seen horses come from nowhere and win.

So, what is on the radar for this four-year-old? The Group 3 Silver Bowl, of course. And while the son of Vespa is rated 13 points below the No. 1 horse in the field, Bestseller, it would be dangerous to ignore his chances in this $110,000 contest over 1,400m on June 9.

Flying Nemo was one of a handful of horses who were out on the training track on June 5 and, with his last-start winning jockey Carlos Henrique in the saddle, the New Zealand-bred gelding breezed over the 600m in 39.4 seconds.

It was a good piece of work and, if anything, it told us that Koh has got his charge ticking over nicely for his assignment in the penultimate event on the 10-race programme.