Gary Ng Ting-keung may not occupy a spot amongst the front-runners in the trainers' championship.
All the same, it has been a highly successful season for the local mentor and he will surely look back on it in a couple of weeks with great satisfaction.
Ng sends out the brilliant Kingston Treasure in the Piaget Gold Cup, feature event on tonight's Derby day meeting, and the three-year-old looks one of the main chances in a highly competitive event.
However, it was one of the stalwarts of the yard, Basic Instinct, who caught the eye as he dashed 400 metres on the all-weather track yesterday morning.
The eight-year-old has had a long wait between wins but returned to form last time out with a fast-finishing effort behind High Sky over tonight's trip a couple of weeks back.
Despite finishing eighth, he was only a little over a length behind the winner.