Horseshoe Fortune can continue trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai's golden run as a banker for Triple Trio punters in the middle leg of the Sha Tin exotic - The Heung Yee Kuk Cup (1,650m) on the all-weather surface.
Yiu has led in 11 winners from his past 55 starters at a strike rate of 20 per cent, and the in-form trainer has elected to switch his four-year-old to the dirt track for the first time on Sunday in a bid to extract the first win from the Chineur gelding.
Horseshoe Fortune has shown some positive signs since being moved to Yiu's stables after former trainer Alex Wong Yu-on dropped the gelding's rating from an import mark of 85 down to 62 before Yiu got his chance.
Two minor placings and two fourths have maintained Horseshoe Fortune at about that level since September, and his last-start third behind Leading City over 1,400m was full of merit and hinted that he may be looking for further. The horse has been tried twice at the mile trip, once when he first arrived and didn't enjoy his only career outing at Happy Valley, and the second three starts back when a game runner-up to Sure Forward lumping 132 pounds in Class Four.
That effort pushed him back up into the bottom of Class Three, and he has sprinted well enough in finishing off his races with light weights to catch the eye leading into this affair.
The big positive for Horseshoe Fortune with the step up in trip will be the slower early tempo, as the gelding has little early dash compared to his short-course rivals and has often been relegated to further back than midfield in his races.