Mark Newnham dominated the Class Two feature on the way to a treble at Sha Tin on Sunday, propelling himself into second in the trainers’ premiership after 25 of the season’s 88 meetings.

After Sing Dragon led home stablemate Full Credit in the Class Two Peninsula Golden Jubilee Challenge Cup (1,200m) on the all-weather track, Talents Ambition snared the Class Three Mody Handicap (1,650m) to hand Newnham a running dirt double.

Classic Mile hopeful My Wish completed Newnham’s three-timer, lifting his handler’s win tally to 20 – two behind leader Pierre Ng Pang-chi – by taking out the Class Three Salisbury Handicap (1,400m).

“Absolutely super. We came with not a lot of runners, but we did have genuine chances all day and it couldn’t have gone better,” said Newnham.

“That’s a little bit surreal,” he added about being second in the championship. “One thing that has been really consistent from day one of the season is that our horses have raced well every week.

“We haven’t hit any real slumps yet and naturally with the ratings system that will happen at some stage. But we still have some unexposed horses and hopefully they fill the gaps when the others have found their level.

“I probably haven’t got a big enough spread of horses to make any real threat, but if we keep as consistent as we have been from the start of the season to the finish, we’ll end up in a good spot.”

In the first 1,200m Class Two on the dirt this season, Sing Dragon improved his course-and-distance record to four wins from five attempts.

After travelling in the one-one spot under Matthew Chadwick, Sing Dragon found enough in the home straight to hold off the fast-finishing Full Credit by a neck.

“They both had a good chance and it finished that way. They both had nice light weights [and] they were drawn next to each other in the gates,” Newnham said.

“The only difference was Sing Dragon’s got established form on the all-weather, but [Full Credit] showed he can handle it well.

“[Sing Dragon’s] form on the turf has been quite good in Class Two, so you knew coming into today that he’s that couple of lengths better on the all-weather and he showed that. They’re both nice horses and it was a good result.”

With the next six-furlong Class Two dirt race to come in February at the earliest, Newnham will consider racing Sing Dragon over 1,400m on turf, while Full Credit could do the same in time.

“He’s a sprinter, he’s really a six-furlong horse. I may stretch him to 1,400m but I wouldn’t see him making the four-year-old series. I think that would be to his detriment,” Newnham said of Full Credit.

“But there’s lots of options for him now he’s showed he handles both [surfaces].”

One galloper who is very much bound for the four-year-old series is My Wish, with the son of Flying Artie landing his third victory of the season to push his rating into the high 70s.

“He’s shown good improvement at each start but I think a lot of the credit today has got to go to Luke [Ferraris],” said Newnham after My Wish was able to travel third on the fence from gate 13.

“From a wide gate, he couldn’t have got into a better spot if he had gate one. That shows confidence in the horse and being able to get the job done.

“The horse is very progressive and doing all the right things. He’s getting up there to a rating which would suggest [the Classic Mile is] a good target for him.

“He’s still got to show he can run a mile, but with the way he settled today there’s no reason not to try it.”