If the phone rings at around 4.05pm Jakarta time this Saturday, and Kiwi trainer Stephen Gray is at the other end of the line, Indonesian racehorse owner Untung Joesoef would know it’s the cue to celebrate – while wishing he could pop a bottle of Green Spot to go...

Kharisma’s run in the $100,000 Kranji Stakes A race over 1400m this Saturday will provide trainer Stephen Gray a few crucial answers towards the feasibility of a Stewards’ Cup raid. In his 15 starts at Kranji, the Mossman four-year-old has ventured beyond his pet trip...

Hard Too Think proved he was a future stayer in the making after a solid win in the $50,000 Class 4 race over 2000m on Saturday. Trainer Stephen Gray was a happy man after the win, especially as he had always seen a career as such for the son of All Too Hard at...

Promising sprinter Kharisma bounced back from his luckless defeat in the Lion City Cup with a resounding win in the $100,000 Better Life 2012 Stakes, a Kranji Stakes A race over 1200m on Saturday. Well handled by Wong Chin Chuen, the Mossman four-year-old was never in...

Just one race after Kharisma upstaged a handy field in a Kranji Stakes A race, in-form trainer Stephen Gray saw another smart four-year-old from his yard thump the opposition in the $50,000 Class 4 Division 2 race over 1100m on Polytrack on Sunday. The Kiwi handler...

A daring gamble to let Kharisma skip a few classes returned instant dividends on Sunday, but also gave trainer Stephen Gray a bit of a conundrum to ponder: Where to from here? Last victorious in Class 3 company three weeks ago when he was bringing up a two-in-a-row,...

Debutant Billy Elliot scored an impressive win in the $20,000 Open Maiden race over 1400m on Saturday, but still left in-form trainer Stephen Gray with a bittersweet feeling at the winner’s circle. The Kiwi handler revealed that Billy Elliot was the last horse his...

Vlad Duric will always try and avail himself whenever good mate Stephen Gray needs him for a barrier trial ride, even if it won’t lead to a race-ride upgrade next. That was again the case on Thursday morning when the four-time Singapore champion jockey was seen...

Progressive galloper Kharisma made it back-to-back wins even after being stepped up in grade in the $70,000 Class 3 race over 1200m on Polytrack on Sunday. The Mossman four-year-old last scored at Class 4 level in a similar all-weather event over six furlongs, but was...

After Simon Kok Wei Hoong won aboard Fireworks on December 5, most would have thought unimaginable that the two-time Singapore champion apprentice jockey could possibly return empty-handed at his next 27 rides. Still, the young buck did, and for a losing sequence that...

Saturday’s $70,000 Class 3 race over 1100m was replete with top chances like Celavi, Super Invincible or Lim’s Passion, but they were in the end all put to the sword by forgotten horse Darc Bounty. Winless for almost a year (last visit to the winner’s circle occurred...

Hard Too Think’s pulsating win on Saturday had winning trainer Stephen Gray feeling both stoked about the All Too Hard four-year-old’s second win, and also a little despondent about the hollowness of a win without the owners on hand. Since the imposition of COVID-19...