It's amazing what can happen in the space of four race meetings. A couple of weeks ago no one was more out of form than English trainer David Oughton. Then no sooner has he sent out one winner, he's sent out four.
That is exactly the kind of run every top trainer here has to endure at some point during their tenure. It's probably explained by the competitive nature of the races rather than having anything to do with their training.
When races are as competitive as they are here, any one trainer's horses can run consistently well for a long time without managing to get their heads in front.
This was exactly the point that Oughton made after his Just Perfect had won on the dirt the Wednesday before last.
It was only the meeting before that Oughton had broken a losing streak of 79 runners without a winner when Espresso obliged. So after such a horrible run he then goes bang, bang, winner, winner. What's more, at the next meeting he sent out a double courtesy of Partiking and Made To Figure.
He said they'd been running well without quite winning and his four recent successes underline that point.
All of these winners have been ridden by the demon Douglas Whyte and it was the popular South African who put a couple of Oughton's through solid hitouts at Sha Tin yesterday morning.
