Winford (Nap) can give new boy Richard Hughes a winning start to his Hong Kong career in the sixth event tonight.
The seven-year-old is probably at his right mark in the lower end of Class Five but he has dropped 10 points in the ratings since winning first-up last season.
And it wasn't a case of being a one-win wonder.
Winford did put in some other good runs, not least at his final outing of last season when given no sort of a ride by a maximum claimer.
Eventually Winford finished fourth to Powernamic over 1,400 metres in this grade but it was a race he could have won had he been put into it at all. But he came from an impossible position to be a length and a half away at the line.
That run showed Winford had ended the season in good heart and trainer Andy Leung Ting-wah and new stable jockey Hughes have reason to be satisfied with his pre-season work.