The winners are starting to come more freely for Australian rider Tim Clark and he made it four for the week at Happy Valley last night with a double that was enough to see him take Jockey Challenge honours on a countback over Douglas Whyte.
In a low-scoring Challenge, 24 points tied the two riders but, with two winners on Kung Hei Fat Choi and Flying Unicorn against Whyte's win and two seconds, Clark carried the day.
Class Five cellar dweller Kung Hei Fat Choi opened the scoring in the first race when he gapped his opposition and, despite the horse's limitations, or perhaps because of them, trainer Richard Gibson said he took a lot of satisfaction from the win.
'It's amazing the satisfaction that you get from winning with these low quality horses, because it isn't easy to get them over the line,' said Gibson. 'Kung Hei Fat Choi has run more than any other horse in my stable this season and he keeps trying, he's just very limited. Tim gave him a great ride from the bad barrier tonight and I suppose the horse looked good winning but I said to the owner beforehand that I didn't really want to train the horse next season.'
Kung Hei Fat Choi and the St George's Challenge Cup winner, My Goal (Whyte), were stablemates under trainer Alex Wong Yu-on last season, and they continued the good year the ex-Wong horses have had.
My Goal hugged the rail all the way from barrier one to win the trophy event for Peter Ng Bik-kuen, the third winner to start from the pole position, after Bear Express and Victory Mascot earlier.