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'[These victories] put the bounce back into my step, kind of get the momentum going again'

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HELENE Express dug deep to take yesterday's $2.1 million Sha Tin Futurity and complete a most welcome double for besieged leading jockey Robbie Fradd.

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The David Hayes-trained four-year-old showed unusual tenacity to keep the exciting Electronic Unicorn at bay. He prevailed by a head with outsider Shaxi Fortune keeping on well for third, just a half-length behind.

Fradd had earlier scored on Cheers Up for trainer Tony Millard in the fourth and is now back to nine in front of arch-rival Douglas Whyte in their private duel for riding supremacy.

Fradd had been almost 20 winners clear some six weeks ago but Whyte has laid siege to him over the intervening meetings.

A delighted Fradd said after racing: 'I think the expression is 'that's just what the doctor ordered'.

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'Things have being going all right since I came back from suspension but I've only really been chipping away with a winner here and a winner there. A double puts the bounce back into my step, kind of gets the momentum going again.' Helene Express won his first start in Hong Kong, having arrived here with a Group Two success to his name from Australia and has hardly run a bad race for Hayes.

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