Inform Eclair Surprise is Singapore bound after his win in the Eclipse Stakes, formerly known as the Consolation Stakes, until the name change in 1940.

Eclair Surprise went into the race with winning form having won at Flemington on Cup Day, he again got a fair way back in running, but to his credit he finished on gamely to score.

The gelding is trained by Phillip Stokes at Morphettville, who seldom comes to Melbourne minus a winner; he has an impressive strike rate.

Dom Tourneur, who lost the ride on Alcopop in the Mackinnon Stakes, has made up for it winning on Éclair Surprise at Flemington and Sandown.

Whilst it may be a little premature to predict he will ride the gelding in Singapore, he has ridden the horse in most of his races, he understands the horse well and a change of riders does not always work, sometimes it is a learning process before a result.

Eclair Surprise is by Blackfriars, winner of the Victoria Derby, he bears quite a strong pedigree yet breeders in Victoria shunned him as if he had the plaque.

Yet there was a welcoming there for him when he arrived in West Australia, where he has never looked back, a regular sire of winners standing at Durham Lodge for $ 16,000.

Eclair Surprise wins the Eclipse Stakes