Tapildo won the New Zealand Oaks easily and she has now won at only her second start in Singapore.
This year's New Zealand Oaks winner Tapildo has picked up her first Singapore win.
Tapildo on Saturday night raced to a 2 3/4 length win in the $S100,000 ($131,000) Admiralty Handicap (1800m) at Kranji racetrack at her second start in Singapore.
Her first Singapore outing was in the $S3 million Singapore International Cup (2000m) on May 12, where she finished second-last at her first start for three months.
Tapildo's overall record now stands at 10 starts for three wins and two seconds. She won the group one $250,000 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) for three-year-old fillies at Trentham in January.
The Rhythm filly was trained in New Zealand by Sheila Laxon but is now in the Singapore stable of her husband Laurie, who is a part-owner of the horse.
Laurie Laxon shares the ownership of Tapildo with Southland dairy farmer Syd Taplin and his son Ian. Tapildo cost her owners $5000 at a Hamilton yearling sale in 1999.
Laxon is second on the trainers' premiership in Singapore with 27 wins - 11 behind leader Malcolm Thwaites on 38.
On Friday night in Singapore, former Waverley trainer Stephen Gray had one of his best wins when Promise Keeper won a $S75,000 race over 1200m.
Promise Keeper, a former member of the Mike Moroney stable at Matamata, was ridden to victory by Waikato jockey Mark Du Plessis who is attached to the Gray stable in Singapore.
- NZPA
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