When Gerald Mosse landed a four-timer at Sha Tin a week ago, it was extraordinary as it was his first such feat for 12 years - yesterday it was only seven days since he'd had one.
It was Mosse doing his job and not a statement for the sake of the Licensing Committee which had on Friday rubber-stamped his retainer arrangement with Manfred Man Ka-leung for next season, but it would have been a powerful message if it had been.
"I'm very happy that the Licensing Committee has approved my new job. I love riding here and I have been successful before as a stable rider as well as a club jockey so I look forward to it. I was not expecting to come back next season so I have to thank my lucky stars, and the committee, that this has happened," Mosse said after wins on Jun Gong, Midnight Rattler, Thors Bolt and Winnam.
"I missed a lot of the season but things have come together in the last part very well and I have had the right horses, which makes my job much easier. Like any jockey I cannot win without the horse."
Mosse definitely had the right supply in the final weeks of the term, winning 12 of his final 40 rides, to finish with a very respectable 37 win total considering he was absent for around a third of the season.
Mosse looked a perfect match for Benno Yung Tin-pang-trained Winnam and so it proved, the horse who needs to be ridden cold piloted by the man who loves to ride them that way as he landed a third straight success.
After Zac Purton had won the first of those three on Winnam, Yung had said Purton was the only one with the key to the six-year-old but subsequently Keith Yeung Ming-lun and Mosse have scored on the gelding.
"Well, first Zac showed them how to ride him," Yung smiled.
