'To come here today for just two rides was a bit disappointing, but to turn those two rides into two nice winners was very enjoyable - I can take more of that,' Mosse laughed.

'But the fact I had only two rides today needs highlighting - everyone seems to think I am retiring, so they are not giving me rides. But that is not the case - I will decide when I finish riding, no one else.'

Mosse did concede, however, he is only licensed until March 22, after which he plans to base himself in France for the majority of the 2009 European season. 'I love Hong Kong, but the break will do me good,' the Frenchman said. 'I have the opportunity to ride for Alain de Royer-Dupre and Carlos Laffon-Parias, and I am looking forward to that. I want to stay in France right up to the Arc meeting [early October].

'After that, I would like to come back to Hong Kong and ride again. I sincerely hope I will be given that opportunity.'

Mosse's double took him to nine winners, a sterling effort in a season that has been blighted with two major suspensions - the first one held over from last season when stewards deemed him to have erred on Moore's Willing Storm.

'That was the one that killed me,' Mosse said. 'I missed the first nine meetings because of that suspension which, for me, was too big a penalty for a simple mistake.

'What people do not understand is that the real penalty goes way beyond those nine meetings. You are missing the association with the horses. Other jockeys get on horses that I might have been riding, they win on them and then you don't get back on.

'Other partnerships are formed in your absence, and this makes it very hard to get any momentum when your suspension finishes. You have to start all over again.'

Mosse then hit a second big hurdle, when stewards found him guilty of not riding Meridian Pride to the finishing line on November 30 and suspended him for five more meetings.

'I think I hit the horse 24 times, but I did not in the last stride and they suspended me,' he bemoaned. 'But anyway, he's won today so that's good for the owners, and he certainly owed me that.'

Of One World, who made light of his topweight of 133 pounds in racking up win number seven in the space of just 17 starts in the seventh race, Mosse was impressed.

'He is a lovely horse, and felt very good underneath me as he lengthened out on the straight,' Mosse said.

'The way he feels, he will get even further than 1,400 metres eventually, but not just at the moment. He needs to learn to relax and settle down better.'

Double delight

Gerald Mosse, who has spent most of this term on the sidelines, racked up a double from two rides. The two winners takes him to nine wins from: 116