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World Star can continue English trainer Peter Chapple-Hyam's much better recent run in the third event at Sha Tin this afternoon.

Chapple-Hyam was a whizz in England where he trained Classic winners and countless Group winners throughout Europe for his main patron Robert Sangster.

Against this background it is hard to say that his first season as a Hong Kong-based trainer has been anything other than disappointing.

Indeed, Chapple-Hyam would be the first to admit it. He's only trained five winners and that simply doesn't make good reading.

But look a little deeper and he's been faced with a difficult set of problems, inheriting mainly former Patrick Biancone-trained horses after the wheat had been sorted from the chaff.

In the main, Chapple-Hyam received the latter.

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