PETER Ng Bik-kuen has found training winners a lot easier this season than in previous campaigns, needing only one more in the next 47 meetings to equal his previous best tally of 15.
Yesterday his Golden Emperor took the last of the 10 barrier trials in good style from sprinter Silent Majority to confirm the Peter Ng stable remains in very good order.
Golden Emperor was always cruising under Danny Lee as the apprentice-ridden Silent Majority set a fast but erratic pace from Lucky Century and Monkey Saint.
Lee let Golden Emperor down in the final 200 metres, allowing him to come home by a neck from Silent Majority in 59.3 seconds, the second fastest overall time of the morning.
Derek Cruz's Monkey Saint habitually works and trials well and was at it again yesterday morning, hitting the line very strongly under Alan Munro.
Monkey Saint had every possible chance to win on the equitrack on his last outing but seemed to lack the resolution to give Jumble Pet a race - let alone go and win.
He has since worked in tremendous style and the one thing that may just make him worth a second chance is that he was found to be suffering from the 'flu virus shortly after that second placing behind Jumble Pet.
