Australian rider Dwayne Dunn burst out of the gloom at Sha Tin yesterday with a treble as he led the way to the outside fence.
Dunn won the opener coming down the centre of the track on Favourite Express for Geoff Lane then surged down the outer to score on Meridian Star in the featured Panasonic Cup but he went even too wide for the cameras to win the eighth on the David Hayes-trained Tom's First.
Punters watching the television coverage saw little of Tom's First until the dying stages, with Super Sprint against the inside rail appearing to have moved well clear at the 200 metres.
But, as the cameras panned back to show the whole course, Dunn was all but giving out high fives to the crowd leaning over the outside running rail as he led the group of three charging home hard up against it.
The group out there eventually provided first, second (Brave Knight) and fourth (My Favourite) in the race with Super Sprint narrowly nudged out of second on the finish line.
'It was a deliberate, planned move to go right to the outside,' Dunn said. 'I'd come quite wide to win on Meridian Star in the previous race but we knew he would handle the wet and he came down the used part of the track.