'I wasn't feeling too good about the championship last week when John went ahead but I'm feeling better today'
With a Sha Tin treble, John Size arm wrestled back the trainers' championship lead from John Moore yesterday but he was the first to admit that the outcome could go right down to the wire this season.
'I wasn't feeling too good about the championship last week when John went ahead but I'm feeling better today,' the three-times champion trainer said after Fly Me To The Moon, Har Har Charms and Armada gave the 'Dream Team' combination of Size and jockey Douglas Whyte three on the day to slip one ahead again from a winless Moore.
'It feels like this is how it's going to be for the next three months so I'm not getting too excited one way or the other meeting by meeting. It looks like the first year I won it, when it was never certain until the last day of the season.
'Anyway, I'm there, I'll do my best and we'll see how it turns out.'
Whyte's own quest for a sixth successive jockeys' championship rolled merrily along with the Tony Millard-trained Fujian Prince making it a four-timer, though his day ended on a sour note with a careless riding ban and $40,000 fine from his win in the final event on Armada.