from RACING POST in Hong KongAmbitious Dragon's Hong Kong Mile win last month was an overdue international success, and the Tony Millard-trained six-year-old should take another step in the Stewards' Cup today towards placing himself among the all-time greats.Winning just three of seven starts last season - even if two of them were the Stewards' Cup and Hong Kong Gold Cup - left the feeling Ambitious Dragon (Zac Purton) should be doing more to be considered alongside some past champions. Obvious

from RACING POST in Hong Kong

Ambitious Dragon's Hong Kong Mile win last month was an overdue international success, and the Tony Millard-trained six-year-old should take another step in the Stewards' Cup today towards placing himself among the all-time greats.

Winning just three of seven starts last season - even if two of them were the Stewards' Cup and Hong Kong Gold Cup - left the feeling Ambitious Dragon (Zac Purton) should be doing more to be considered alongside some past champions. Obviously, connections felt that a trip to Dubai for the Duty Free had greater consequences than just the disappointment of defeat in the desert last year, and the Dragon was a notable absentee from a list of 14 Hong Kong entries last week for the 2013 World Cup card.

Instead, the focus is on getting the chemistry right to win the Triple Crown, a difficult task over three significantly different distances and the third leg, the Champions & Chater Cup is three months after the second leg, the Gold Cup next month.

But it starts with today's Group One feature and that looks the leg Ambitious Dragon should tackle with some assurance. He has had eight runs at the distance for five wins and a second, and back-to-back victories in the race would already push Ambitious Dragon into rarefied air - it's a feat accomplished only three times previously, by Always Plentiful in the 1980s and more recently by Electronic Unicorn (2002, 2003) and Good Ba Ba (2008, 2009).

And there is every reason to think that the race will be run at a good even speed with the presence of Leading City as the dedicated leader. That six-year-old has never run past another horse to win any of his six successes, but has not looked as quick lately in sprints, so the return to a mile should see him back to the only role he has ever employed successfully. (www.racing.scmp.com)