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Lee's Famous aims for seventh heaven

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Being Famous has stepped up to the plate and done the improbable all season by winning six races.

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But he will move into rarefied territory if he can do the near-impossible with one more victory in the final event at Sha Tin today.

The pride of the Almond Lee Yee-tat stable has scored at six of his past seven starts and defied the doubters along the way as he climbed in the grades.

He is bidding to win his seventh race in a season - something you won't even find on the performance sheets of legends like Silent Witness or River Verdon.

Silent Witness' best season to date was his second, when he was unbeaten in six runs, and while there are a number of winners of six races in a campaign, many in the modern era, no horse has been able to make it seven times into the winner's stall in a single term.

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Silent Witness aside, Tony Millard brought Noble Boy from Class Five to Class One three years ago with six consecutive wins, as did John Size with Darwin in 2001-2, though each in the same season but was unable to make it seven so Being Famous (Brett Prebble) has the chance today to really make a name for himself among the greats.

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