When jockey Wong Chin Chuen sat in third place on 20 winners at the halfway mark in June, his vision of what lay ahead was pretty clear. With a haul (58) almost three times his, tearaway leader Manoel Nunes was already out of reach, barring injury or...
The Brazilian still holds sway, but Wong has shaved 13 winners off the yawning gap, including his epic victory on Lim’s Kosciuszko in the Group 1 Lion City Cup two weeks ago , and a terrific treble on Sunday.
A more realistic target for the 28-year-old would be a first top local jockey gong. The next best Koh Teck Huat is 15 winners astern. Good horses make good jockeys, they say, but Wong has his own interesting spin to the adage – quantity, not just quality. Wong’s adaptability to a wider range of horses showed in Sunday’s prolific haul, especially on the first leg of the hat-trick, the well-backed Cizen Lucky . He has partnered the Zacinto seven-year-old nine times, but it was only at his last two starts that he finally held the whip hand, literally.
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