Dr Win can record what is likely to be the first of many victories by taking the second event on this afternoon's Sha Tin card.
Yet again there is some cracking sport on offer. Besides Dr Win who appears worth a solid win bet in the second, there's a little matter of $22 million in the Triple Trio jackpot plus some quality Class One performers primed to contest the sixth.
Dr Win has looked a ready-made winner virtually from the moment he stepped out on to the Sha Tin work tracks. He's a lovely, athletic individual and a very fluent mover. He needed his griffin debut at Happy Valley but still showed plenty of promise and then came back to Sha Tin to run a luckless third to the potentially smart Keen Winner over today's 1,400 metre trip. Dr Win was beaten 2.25 lengths by Keen Winner in a run which had future winner written all over it.
Trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fie is patient with his youngsters and after that put Dr Win away for the season. The son of Defensive Play then reappeared in a mile event at the Valley in which he could never properly get into the race from his inside draw.
But he was noted motoring to the line and with normal luck in running would have gone very closer to downing the winner, Grand Prize.
Typical of so many of Yiu's young stock, Dr Win had not done much work going into that Valley run, so he should progress significantly for the outing.
It was really only his innate ability which saw him put in such a bold run behind Grand Prize - and it's a level ability which looks far beyond the Class Four opposition he tackles this afternoon. Such has been the promise of Dr Win's past couple of runs that it looked as if he would start at cramped odds when next seen out.
