IT may have been Melbourne Cup day but it was still business as usual during a very busy morning's work and trials at Sha Tin yesterday.
Neville Begg had two reasons to celebrate.
Not only was his son-in-law, the immensely popular and stylish Wayne Harris riding a peach of a race to take the Melbourne Cup, his own stable star, Winning Partners was trialling in exemplary fashion.
The International Bowl hero lost his way a little towards the end of last season when he definitely wasn't working up to his previously high standard and the way he was getting his head up in his work and his races led to speculation that there may be a slight wind problem.
But yesterday he looked in superb condition as he came through on the bridle to take the second of five trials on the grass down the straight 1,000-metre course.
This was a very classy effort in what really was a quality trial field.
