The Singapore International Airlines Cup was run in May of each year from 2000 to 2015, as part of the World Series Racing Championship and was the country’s richest thoroughbred race with a purse of $3,000,000.
- Race Type: Group 1
- Distance: 2000 metres
- Track: Kranji, Singapore
- Date: Sunday 17 May 2015
Sponsored by Singapore Airlines, the race was run over a distance of 2,000 meters at the Singapore Turf Club in Kranji, Singapore. The Singapore Cup was held from 2000 until 2015 and was always sponsored by the airlines. The race attained Group One status in 2002. It was discontinued after the 2015 running as it had achieved the original objective of branding Singapore races internationally and uplifting the quality of Singapore horses and Singapore Racing.
The Singapore Cup, which is run on turf, is for three-year-olds and up and is limited to 16 starters. Three-year-olds carry 50 kgs and four-year-olds and up carry 57 kgs. There is a 1.5 kg allowance for fillies and mares.
Singapore Cup Final Field & Odds 2015
See below for the early betting markets on this years race Singapore Cup.
Singapore Cup Preview 2015
Track: Good Weather: Fine
A field of 11 will contest the 2015 Singapore International Airlines Cup. The favourite is 2013 winner Military Attack who ran 3rd when favourite last year. He has drawn perfectly in barrier 3. Second favourite is French-trained runner Free Port Lux, while Japanese Derby placegetter Meiner Frost is currently third in the market.
Dan Excel won this race last year after being 2nd in 2013 and has drawn wide in barrier 10 causing him to drift in the betting. French-trained Smoking Sun was 2nd last year but was disappointing in Shatin recently. Guitar Man has a strong each-eway chance and will be ridden by Joao Moreira. The other 5 runners are currently at 33 to 1 or longer.
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Jo’s Tips
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| Dan Excel |
| Military Attack |
| Guitar Man |
| Meiner Frost |
Other major races on Singapore Cup day are:
Previous winners of the Singapore Cup:
Since the inception of the Singapore Cup, champions have come from six different countries. Ouzo, from New Zealand, won the inaugural race in 2000. Endless Hall, Great Britain, captured the 2001 championship; Grandera, United Arab Emirates, won in 2002; Epala, Germany, in 2004; Mummify, Australia, in 2005; and Cosmo Bulk, Japan, 2006.
The Singapore Cup was cancelled in 2003 because of the SARS virus scare.
| Year | Winner | Second | Third |
| 2015 | Dan Excel | Military Attack | Quechua |
| 2014 | Dan Excel | Smoking Sun | Military Attack |
| 2013 | Military Attack | Dan Excel | Mawingo |
| 2012 | Chinchon | Zaidon | Flax |
| 2011 | Gitano Hernando | River Jetez | Irian/Waikato (dead heat) |
| 2010 | Lizard’s Desire | Gloria de Campeao | Al Shemali |
| 2009 | Gloria de Campeao | Presvis | Bankable |
| 2008 | Jay Peg | Recast | Balius |
| 2007 | Shadow Gate | Cosmo Bulk | Doctor Dino |
| 2006 | Cosmo Bulk | King And King | Bowman’s Crossing |
| 2005 | Mummify | Phoenix Reach | Alexander Goldrun |
| 2004 | Epala | Surveyor | Bowman’s Crossing |
| 2003 | (event was cancelled) | ||
| 2002 | Grandera | Paolini | Indigenous |
| 2001 | Endless Hall | Jim And Tonic | With The Flow |
| 2000 | Ouzo | Jim And Tonic | Carry The Flag |
The owner of the winning horse in 2006 claimed $1,275,000 of the $3,000,000 prize money. The winning trainer received S$172,500 and the jockey received $142,500. The second place horse earned $480,000 and third place was worth $240,000.
In 2006, top horses from six countries – Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia – took on seven of Singapore’s best during the Singapore Cup.
Cosmo Bulk, a horse from Japan, bested the rest of the field to win the 2006 cup. The five-year-old carried 57 kgs and is owned by Misako Okada, trained by Kazunori Tabe and ridden by Fuyuki Igarashi. King And King was second and Bowman’s Crossing finished third. An estimated two billion viewers worldwide saw the event on either television or the
Internet.