It may have been a modest $35,000 Class 5 race over 1200m but the smiles One O Nine’s flying win brought on trainer Tan Hor Khoon’s and jockey Koh Teck Huat’s faces were priceless.

Success begets success and in Singaporean jockey Koh Teck Huat’s case, also a licence to ride until the end of the year.

Blink and you miss it, but to jockey Koh Teck Huat, Knight Spirit’s win on Sunday was a personal record of sorts that has now stretched to its third year in a row.