IRISH champion jockey Mick Kinane winds up his six-month Hongkong stint on Sunday and could give Double Trio punters a banker for the first leg of the bet in the fifth event at Sha Tin on International Races day.
Kinane partners Fortune Leader for David Hill - likely to have other things on his mind - and they look well placed to run in the first three in this 1,800-metre Class One event. Hill is also trainer of River Verdon, favourite in the meeting's prestigiousInternational Cup race.
Fortune Leader scored a shock win last time for a claimer over 1,600 metres at Sha Tin and the main hope for a repeat performance on Sunday would have to be a really fast pace in this event.
But that could well be supplied by topweight Right Way, another Irish import who has done remarkably well for trainer Brian Kan Ping-chee.
Right Way is a confirmed front-runner who goes exceptionally well for claimer Jimmy K. H. Ting and he will be expected to be blazing along out in front today.
Fortune Leader has been thereabouts in many Hongkong runs before actually breaking through to win last time but he finishes well over whatever distance.
