FLYING High can stamp his class all over tonight's sixth event on the Happy Valley grass.
The Stephen Leung-trained four-year-old has won his only two starts to date in most impressive fashion. He showed great tenacity to knuckle down to the task and beat none other than boom private purchase griffin, Hussar, on his racecourse debut down the straight 1,000-metre course.
The pair pulled well clear of third-placed Pleasant Win who has franked the form by scoring since. Indeed, so has Hussar who went on to win in emphatic style down the straight 1,000-metre chute the next time he was seen in action. Leung then took Flying High to the Valley for a race over tonight's 1,235-metre course and distance and he simply whizzed in by 31/2 lengths from Patrick Biancone's Big Mac with the rest of the field well strung out behind.
Flying High was drawn in barrier two that night and jump smartly to hold a prominent position throughout the race under Darryll Holland who has struck up such a fine understanding with this son of Mansooj.
When Holland asked Flying High to go he took a little while to assert his authority over his opponents, but in the final 100 metres he powered clear to win unextended in the most impressive fashion imaginable.
He was never going better, or was never more dominant than on the line and that is always a very fine sign. Since then he has trained on really well, filling the eye on each of his last three serious pieces. He looked a picture when out working last Tuesday morning.
He then put in a most fluent piece from the barriers on Thursday and on Monday morning he showed plenty of zest as he came through a quality last 400 metres. He has been raised 13 pounds for his defeat of Big Mac, jumping from a rating of 59 in Class Three to one of 72 in Class Two and in Jewellery Star, who is starting for the first time for Neville Begg tonight, he has to compete against his first Class One-rated opponent.
