from RACING POST HKWith the benefit of a run under his belt, the Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Supreme Win can keep his outstanding second-up record intact by winning the Kwangtung Handicap Cup (1,400m) at Sha Tin. The five-year-old was an eye-catching effort at the finish of the season's opening feature race, the Chief Executive's Cup, last weekend and Man has replicated a winning formula by bring him back to run today with a fitness edge. In three attempts second-up in a preparation, Supreme W

from RACING POST HK

With the benefit of a run under his belt, the Manfred Man Ka-leung-trained Supreme Win can keep his outstanding second-up record intact by winning the Kwangtung Handicap Cup (1,400m) at Sha Tin. The five-year-old was an eye-catching effort at the finish of the season's opening feature race, the Chief Executive's Cup, last weekend and Man has replicated a winning formula by bring him back to run today with a fitness edge.

In three attempts second-up in a preparation, Supreme Win (Olivier Doleuze) has been victorious in the past and his only quick back-up came in June when he won in Class Two over the same trip as today's event.

On that occasion, Supreme Win had also closed off well the previous week over 1,200m, and it was hard to miss his run-on effort behind Joy And Fun last week over that trip after making a mess of the start.

Doleuze then had no option but to settle last, but Supreme Win's final 200m was very impressive and the 1,400m looks a better assignment for the very honest gelding.

In 21 starts, he has won five times and finished in the first four another eight times, and quite a few of the other unplaced runs have had significant excuses attached.

From gate six, Doleuze should be able to position Supreme Win in the first half a dozen and also get him to the outside to make his finishing run, a situation the gelding prefers to coming between horses.

While that win in June was in Class Two and he faces a Class One field this time, Supreme Win carried 133 pounds as topweight that afternoon but will drop to 121 pounds this time.

With plenty to recommend him already, throw in that Supreme Win is the only runner in this race to have had a recent start and he looks the one they will have to beat.

In a race that looks very thin on genuine winning chances, punters will doubtless look to the John Size-trained National Treasure (Douglas Whyte) and Dennis Yip Chor-hong's Fat Choy Oohlala (Alvin Ng Ka-chun) as the obvious dangers, and those two have also been ultra-consistent in fairly brief careers.

National Treasure is four from four at the Sha Tin 1,400m and unplaced just once in his 12 runs, with his fourth last start when he stepped up to Class One company for the first time his only minor blemish and even then he was beaten less than a length.

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