Paul O'Sullivan has started off the new racing season impressively, taking some limited horses to multiple successes, but the sleeper in the stable could well be Easy Game, who turned in an incredible performance to finish second at Sha Tin on Saturday.
O'Sullivan has prepared 13 winners this season and his performance in squeezing successes out of the likes of Happy Winning, Desert Strike, Treasure Raiders and Danefactor is a credit to the New Zealander.
Easy Game has been another success story for O'Sullivan, taking over the training of the Straight Strike gelding when he boasted a record of nine starts for no placings with an average beaten margin of more than eight lengths.
The six-year-old has now had 17 starts for O'Sullivan, winning four and placing four times, graduating from Class Five to Class Three company and on his performance last Saturday there is certainly more to come.
Easy Game settled at the tail of the field, as usual, and by the time they had reached the 400-metre mark, he was spotting the leader, Fat Choy Forever, some eight lengths.
To be able to cut the winner, Victory Treasure, to a head despite the final 400m sectional being 23.3 seconds, shows what a great performance it was and expect him to make amends for the defeat very soon.
Although beaten into third place as favourite, Fat Choy Forever's effort was commendable given it was his first try over 1,650m.