Ronald Arculli has a long list of achievements in both business and racing, but should his English-trained stayer Red Cadeaux win the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase, it will feature prominently on the influential business leader's already overflowing mantlepiece.
The former Hong Kong Jockey Club Chairman wears many hats; head of the Hong Kong Exchange and senior partner of one of mainland China's biggest law firms among them.
At Sunday's International Races, however, he will fill his favourite role, being one of 70,000 screaming fans at Sha Tin.
Twenty years after Hong Kong Triple Crown winner River Verdon captured the formative version of the Vase for Arculli, Red Cadeaux will be out to avenge his narrow Melbourne Cup loss to Dunaden in the staying feature.
'The Vase today is an International Group One. When I won it the last time in 1991 it was a domestic Group One ... so it would be nice to celebrate the 20th anniversary of that win,' he said.
Arculli grew up near Happy Valley racetrack, but his passion for racing was truly cemented as an 'impoverished law student' studying in England and desperate to back a winner.
'You put your 50p on a horse and if it wins you have a steak and if it doesn't you have a piece of toast,' he said.