Champion jockey Vlad Duric will be shooting for a piece of Kranji racing history on Sunday afternoon when he is legged aboard exciting four-year-old galloper INFERNO in the $400,000 G1 Lion City Cup (1200m).
In twenty runnings of the great sprint at Kranji racecourse, four jockeys have won the race two times: Barend Vorster (2007 & 2011), Robbie Fradd (2009 & 2010), Alan Munro (2014 & 2015) and Vlad Duric (2016 & 2019).
Duric collected his victories on the Cliff Brown-trained ZAC SPIRIT in 2016 and the Shane Baertschiger-trained ARAMCO in 2019. Victory this week on INFERNO will elevate Duric to rare air as the only three-time winner of the Lion City Cup in modern day Kranji racing history.
| Year | Horse | (Kg) | Distance | Time | Jockey | Trainer |
| 2019 | ARAMCO | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:09.0 | V DURIC | S BAERTSCHIGER |
| 2016 | ZAC SPIRIT | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:08.4 | V DURIC | C BROWN |
| 2010 | ROCKET MAN | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:09.2 | R FRADD | P SHAW |
| 2009 | ROCKET MAN | 55.5 | 1200M | 01:08.7 | R FRADD | P SHAW |
| 2011 | ROCKET MAN | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:08.8 | B VORSTER | P SHAW |
| 2007 | WHY BE | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:11.3 | B VORSTER | L LAXON |
| 2015 | WAR AFFAIR | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:09.2 | A MUNRO | HW TAN |
| 2014 | ZAC SPIRIT | 57.5 | 1200M | 01:08.8 | A MUNRO | C BROWN |
