It's always tempting to earmark griffins as horses to follow, given that they have their whole future ahead of them, and the run of Alex Wong Yu-on's Perfect Victory (21-1) in yesterday's juvenile is a case in point.
The three-year-old American-bred was having his first race start when working home stylishly for sixth behind the well-supported Par Excellence.
Beaten for speed early under Jimmy K. H. Ting, Perfect Victory looked to travel a little greenly in the early stages before finding his stride in the straight.
He was finishing best of all at the end of the 1,400 metres and would have taken a bigger part had he been ridden closer.
Despite that he looks to have a definite future and can be followed when he next steps out.
Later in the day there was a promising effort from the David Oughton-trained Marquee Universal (22-1) in the Class Three, 1,200-metre dash won by Yellow River.