Gerald Mosse claims Little Bridge still has room to improve after he booked a return tilt at the Hong Kong Sprint with a dominant win in the Jockey Club Sprint.
Little Bridge lowered the boom on odds-on favourite Entrapment and proved he was the equal of any of what looks a wide-open group of sprinters with the three-quarter-length victory.
Mosse was having his first ride on the Danny Shum Chap-shing-trained five-year-old and replaced Zac Purton in the saddle, who committed to champion sprinter Sacred Kingdom for International Day.
'The way he ran, he will be a solid competitor in the big race,' Mosse said. 'He will be right up to it, because he won very easy today. I don't want to make everybody too excited, but he made me very happy.
'This horse is still young and coming up.'
Little Bridge suffered his first defeat, at his sixth start, in this race last year when he was a half-length third behind dead-heaters Rocket Man and One World.