Derek Leung Ka-chun's treble last weekend was his first three-timer for more than two years, so there may be the momentary inclination to regard it as a spike in his form unlikely to be repeated - but only if one judges jockeys only on the results in the paper rather than the actual riding performances.
To others, it might be a turning point in his public profile after riding in great form for months without really capturing the imagination.
If that sounds an odd viewpoint, then rest assured that most, if not all, jockeys would at least support it. A rider's performance, over a relatively short term anyway, is more than just the ones that arrive with their head in front on the line.
We've noted a number of times that we have never seen any jockey arrive and ride as consistently well for so little reward as Brett Prebble in his first stint - two wins from more than 100 rides until Precision's Champions & Chater Cup put him on the map and into the minds of owners and trainers. He rode as well then as now, but didn't have the cattle to get him to market as he does these days.
Jockeys can ride particularly well without getting the results they deserve and that, to some extent, was most of Leung's 2011. Take a look at his effort in defeat on cellar-dweller Noble Twins last Wednesday for a recent ride that deserved a better fate.
As a junior, his progress was continually hampered by suspensions, including 26 days out of his 78 possible meetings in 2009-10, when 10 meetings for reckless riding after bringing himself down in a fall at Sha Tin stood out. Last season, his offences dropped to 15 days - two of them for dropping his whip too often - and while that is still too many, his riding became more positive, more consistent. And it was the end of the season, when he did get the rewards for his consistent performances, that he looked a jockey who might have just the right kind of momentum to his development at the moment of coming out of his apprenticeship.