Silent Witness continues to bestride the racing world like a colossus and nothing short of an accident - or a miracle - will prevent him landing win number 17 and his latest piece of racing history at Sha Tin this afternoon.
His Highness, the Witness, will once again be at the minimum price, $10.50, to land the Group Two Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup, despite it being his first attempt into the uncharted territory of racing at 1,400 metres.
But defeat is unthinkable. The extra 200m will not represent any significant challenge to the great one who, like many top sprinters before him, will revel in the softer tempo that 1,400m racing represents.
In victory, he will leave the 16-win sequences of his ancestor Ribot and North American icons Citation and Cigar behind, and become the first Group One thoroughbred to win 17 on end since the 1951 New Zealand Derby winner Mainbrace.
Trainer Tony Cruz has Silent Witness in prime condition, as he always does. The champion conditioner makes no errors in this vital area, as his astonishing 21.7 per cent strike rate for the season illustrates.
And jockey Felix Coetzee, the 46-year-old South African master horseman, could well sing an adaptation of Frank Sinatra's My Way - 'mistakes, I've made a few, but then again, too few too mention.' Perfection may be a hard thing to find, but Coetzee's riding of Silent Witness will suffice while we keep looking.
