Laureate can get the better of Golden Double in the sixth event on tonight's mixed grass and dirt meeting at Sha Tin where there won't be too much atmosphere but there are some good betting opportunities which, fingers crossed, will more than compensate.
The sixth looks a reasonably straightforward affair by Hong Kong standards with Golden Double and Laureate standing out as the two main form chances.
Normally when there is a full field of 14 runners so competitive is the event framed by the handicapping department that it is hard to cross out more than a couple, if that. But in this sixth event Laureate and Golden Double leap off the page followed by The Greatest and then, maybe, Elite and Super Lord.
Beyond these it is hard to see too many other main form chances.
Basil Marcus will probably be looking to come from just off the speed aboard Laureate.
The six-time champion hasn't been having too good a trot of late and is almost certainly a few winners behind the kind of tally he would have liked to have accumulated with just over a quarter of the season gone.