With the ice finally broken for the season last Sunday, top French rider Olivier Doleuze pressed on with the good work by landing a double on Wednesday night at Happy Valley and collecting the Jockey Challenge honours on a countback, reports the HK Racing Post. Doleuze scored on Win-A-Lot for Sean Woods in the third event then Holiday Sun for Danny Shum Chap-shing two races later, giving him 24 points for the night's Challenge.Keith Yeung Ming-lun matched that total but only landed one winner -

With the ice finally broken for the season last Sunday, top French rider Olivier Doleuze pressed on with the good work by landing a double on Wednesday night at Happy Valley and collecting the Jockey Challenge honours on a countback, reports the HK Racing Post.

Doleuze scored on Win-A-Lot for Sean Woods in the third event then Holiday Sun for Danny Shum Chap-shing two races later, giving him 24 points for the night's Challenge.

Keith Yeung Ming-lun matched that total but only landed one winner - the durable nine-year-old Fat Dragon for Me Tsui Yu-sak in the night's feature, the Hong Kong Golf Club Centenary Cup - so Doleuze was declared the victor as he had more race wins.

Woods said that Win-A-Lot will be back at Happy Valley next Wednesday night after his rails-hugging success last night underlined how well he has come back this term and the trainer said farrier Paul Cumming could take plenty of credit.

"Not only this horse, but he's done a good job with a few of mine with hoof problems," said Woods. "Win-A-Lot had problems with quarter cracks last year and he was a patch-up job all season. But Paul's done some work on getting his feet right and this is the first time the horse has started his season without any pain.

"Olivier said he really picked up and stretched tonight."

Paul O'Sullivan took training honours with a double as Big Kahuna (Brett Prebble) and Soviet Pearl (Derek Leung Ka-chun) took out the first two events for the New Zealander.

"We made the decision to run Big Kahuna on the dirt first time out after he'd trialled well on the surface but he just didn't kick on it," the trainer said. "Still, he's a horse that just needs everything to go right like he had tonight and that's his chance to win.