Dull Lead should take all the beating in the third event on Sha Tin's 10-race card this afternoon.
The Ricky Yiu Poon-fie-trained four-year-old could be a big help to Triple Trio players as he looks a natural born banker for them in this Class Four mile contest which opens the world's best bet.
But he also looks worth a win wager in his own right, never mind banking on to run into the first three.
He was a progressive individual last season and he has the benefit of a run under his belt this season.
So many of Yiu's horses need their reappearances and that is how it looked for Dull Lead when he stepped out in the 1,400-metre contest on the second Sha Tin meeting of the season won by Golden Choice. Dull Lead looked far from fully wound up yet he still ran a blinder and with normal luck in running he might well have downed the Peter Ng Bik-kuen-trained winner.
But luck didn't go Dull Lead's way as he was repeatedly hampered from the apex of the bottom bend.
When he and jockey Steven King finally saw daylight they flew home into fourth, beaten just 3.5 lengths.
