PROMISING local handler Stephen Leung's season took a while to get going last term and he is following a similar pattern this time round.
His horses came back into work looking very well in themselves, but decidedly on the burly side.
However, the signs from trackwork and from the racecourse are that there will be winners there later in the campaign.
One to note for the present, though, is his reappearance second Super Fellow who has done nothing but progress since joining Leung from his former mentor Patrick Biancone.
This is the Australian import which led the great French handler to crack: 'When Stephen has a winner it makes me a good teacher, but when his horses run badly he's a bad pupil.' That typical one-liner came after Super Fellow won on his first start for Leung at the backend of last season, having moved to Leung on Biancone's advice.
'I'd tried everything I could to get to the bottom of this horse and just knew that he would be the type to suit Stephen's style of training,' Biancone was also generous enough to admit.
Suit Leung? Super Fellow certainly has because he put up another improved performance on his seasonal reappearance when forcing Canadian Champ all the way to the line without having had much luck when squeezing through on the far rail.
