Olivier set for more at Sha Tin on Sunday

Olivier Doleuze has limbered up and is ready for some proper action as the build-up towards the feature races begins, and an upset win in today's Jockey Challenge at Sha Tin should be a perfect scene-setter for the flamboyant Frenchman, reports Murray Bell of the Racing Post (www.racing.scmp.com).He says: Doleuze is a huge talent, as his wins in the last two editions of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile and his unprecedented series of feature mile victories last term on Good Ba Ba suggest. Race

Olivier Doleuze has limbered up and is ready for some proper action as the build-up towards the feature races begins, and an upset win in today's Jockey Challenge at Sha Tin should be a perfect scene-setter for the flamboyant Frenchman, reports Murray Bell of the Racing Post (www.racing.scmp.com).

He says: Doleuze is a huge talent, as his wins in the last two editions of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile and his unprecedented series of feature mile victories last term on Good Ba Ba suggest. Race after race, Doleuze is the man for the high-pressure occasion.

Today's Ladies' Purse fixture is a curtain raiser to the big races coming up, and Doleuze has a good prospect on which to mount a successful Jockey Challenge - emerging four-year-old Deferential.

This quality chestnut is a member of the Caspar Fownes string, and he looks to be a real improver, showing the benefit of the maturity that one extra year of patience and development has brought him.

Deferential won the Group Two Todman Slipper Trial at Rosehill as a two-year-old and for what that means in terms of class, think about champion sprinters Fastnet Rock and Absolute Champion, who fought out the race two years earlier.

Just like Absolute Champion did when he came to Hong Kong, Deferential found it too hard competing against older horses in Class Two while still a three-year-old. And Fownes, with so many years of experience, knows not to push the issue with such horses.

But a top first-up run this term strongly suggests Deferential has turned the corner and may soon become another feature winner in the familiar blue and white livery of The Duke's owner, Eddie Lau Jnr.