The championship trophy engraver knows their names by heart, but the 'Dream Team' of John Size and Douglas Whyte keep singing the same old song - it doesn't get any easier.
Size landed his fifth training championship in seven attempts last season, but the laconic Australian is taking nothing for granted this time around.
'When you win the championship, it doesn't make the next one any easier. Everyone goes back to zero. You start from scratch and have to make it all happen again,' he said.
'Because of the handicapping system you can even say that winning a championship often makes the next one harder because your horses have risen up the ratings and it slows them down. There's a lot of hard work ahead but I'm looking forward to the season.
'I'm especially looking forward to what Armada can do. His run in Japan showed that he was back in form and, though he's a seven-year-old now, he hasn't had a lot of racing.'
Perhaps Whyte, despite eight successive jockey titles and most of the records available in Hong Kong racing, has more of a case to say 'things will be tougher', though you wouldn't know it looking at his canter to win with a 111 tally last season.
