Umberto Rispoli might only have cracked it for his first wins on Monday and he might not yet have caught the public consciousness like some other young visitors before him, but the Italian has shown an abundance of the talent necessary to succeed here. And first and foremost is the ability to take a punch and keep going.
As we have said here many times, any expatriate of sufficient standing to warrant a licence is probably used to winning at least 100 races a year at home. So for Rispoli to have been winless from 73 mounts in his seven weeks before Monday must have been unsettling, but his attitude seemed to hold up well.
Cheering him on is the Jockey Club itself, keen to see diversity amongst the sources for jockeys and just as keen that a young rider like Rispoli is willing to tough it out to get there in the end.
Some thought has, in the past decade, gone into the cycling through of local jockeys. Whether quite as much goes into thinking about the cycling through of expats, we're not so certain.
There has to be more of a balance between offering owners and trainers the names they have known for many years and offering them newer, lesser known club riders who are on the rise and hungrier for the challenge.
Lord knows we have plenty of empathy with the middle aged, but to keep the scene fresh requires some churning of jockeys.