Flashy Fiery Whisperer and General Danroad help Lui to a double

Flashy colt Fiery Whisperer made tremendous race-to-race improvement, showing no signs of worrying internal issues, as the griffin formed the first half of a Francis Lui Kin-wai double with a smart win up the straight.

When Brett Prebble rode the horse on debut five weeks ago, Fiery Whisperer pulled up with substantial blood in the trachea, an explanation for what the jockey felt was a below-par run.

'He probably didn't bleed today and it showed,' Prebble said. 'I felt like he was going to win last start, and I was a fraction disappointed until we scoped him after the race. He made some awful noises pulling up last start, it sounded like internal problems, and it turned out that was the case. In his last two gallops, he was clean, and I was confident today he would run first three.'

Those expectations were blown away when the two-year-old showed speed and tenacity to fight off another nice-looking two-year-old, Let Me Too.

'He definitely raised the bar a bit today and has come on,' Prebble said. 'He is a real fighter, and he fought the other day, too. He has got upside and he will go further, he is a nice horse.'

Lui said the drop back to 1,000m was purely to fit into programming and Fiery Whisperer will get 'at least 1,400m'.