Sweet Victory can put David Hayes and Basil Marcus back on the winning trail in the fifth event on this afternoon's highly competitive 10-race Sha Tin card.
Hayes and Marcus were on the scoresheet on Wednesday night via Momentum but it could so easily have been a treble rather than just the solitary success as Marquee Universal and then Charming City lost out in photo-finishes which were both bob-of-the-head jobs.
Sweet Victory, himself, has been desperately unlucky on each of his two outings this season.
First time out, he should have finished closer than 5.5 lengths seventh to Perfect Combo but, in the context of the race, was ridden too far back and then met trouble in running. More recently he probably wouldn't have beaten Top Practitioner but, with normal luck in running, he would have given him plenty to think about.
Instead, Marcus and Sweet Victory flew home for third having been behind a wall of horses in the home straight for some 100 metres and this at a time when Sweet Victory was really starting to pick up.
This afternoon's contest is over a mile on the Sha Tin dirt.
Sweet Victory's past two runs, which showed that a Class Five success was imminent, have been on the grass. But Sweet Victory has handled the dirt before. Indeed his first career effort resulted in a third to Winning Express and Forever Prosperous in an 1,150-metre dirt sprint in which Sweet Victory came from off the pace to snatch the tierce spot on the line.