With three wins this season, Dashing Fellow has already contributed plenty to John Moore's championship charge but the trainer will be hoping he can advance the cause even further by landing one more success in the Hong Kong Riding For The Disabled Association Cup (1,400m) today at Sha Tin.

Despite having already had those successes, Dashing Fellow (Joao Moreira) doesn't look to have been caught by the handicapper just yet and the three-year-old still has at least another 10 or 20 ratings points in him.

He has really found his niche over today's course and distance, finishing first or second at five of his eight attempts over the 1,400m and has not been far away in the others.

Dashing Fellow's most recent appearance came four weeks ago, when he finished fifth to Packing Pins in Class Two, a sound enough effort in that grade but today he comes back to Class Three, where he had won his previous two starts.

Two runs back, he had the same draw he has this afternoon when he trounced a Class Three field by more than two lengths after sitting behind a good speed to the home turn.

That looks the identical scenario today, with the pace in the race likely coming from horses drawn out on the track and having to run along to get across.

Star Of Bond, Gran Bolivar (Jack Wong Ho-nam) and even Choice Treasure occupy the three outside stalls and will want to go forward, and they have Beauty King drawn lower and showing early speed as well.

That gives Moreira the luxury from gate three to find the rail behind them, poised in fifth or sixth position and spending no energy in the run to the home turn. Then his turn of foot should take care of those ahead of him and justify his likely favouritism.

Gran Bolivar is an interesting proposition as a danger, as he receives 27 pounds in weight from the year younger Dashing Fellow.

He did some work in the early stages at Happy Valley to get the lead from barrier nine but still never really looked like being run down and closed the race out in sub-23 seconds for his final section. The favourite there, Mi Savvy, had enjoyed a perfect run behind him and still couldn't even threaten the leader.

In a handful of runs in Australia, Gran Bolivar looked a decent type and the rise into Class Three should not be beyond his talents, but his issue is how much work he does in the early part of the race again. It seems a less likely scenario than his being taken on but, if he is able to cruise across and dictate for his apprentice rider, Gran Bolivar will be there for a long way again.