Francis Lui has continued to hold a clear margin on our trainer ratings and is chipping away at the real world leaders on the championship, but jockey Andrea Atzeni is Hong Kong's form player.
Atzeni has been on a hot streak, with 19 wins from his last 100 rides looking like Purtonesque numbers, comfortably leading the roster on that metric.
On the official championship, he is now putting strong pressure on Hugh Bowman for second in the distant chase behind Zac Purton and his ability to ride light handicap weights is going to be a major factor in how that plays out.
Ratings leader, Purton has made some sort of bounce off low figures recently but is still functioning short of his regular numbers.
On the trainers' list, Lui continues to be our man to beat in the championship, leading the ratings and continuing to wear away at the leaders in the championship.
The 2024 champion trainer is now just five wins off the frontrunner, Caspar Fownes, after a double on Derby with Gold Patch and the extremely exciting Hot Delight, both horses which will win more races before the end of the season.
Fownes leads Mark Newnham by one win, with three wins to David Hayes then one more to Lui. What Lui has in his favour for the title race is that he excels at both Sha Tin and Happy Valley tracks, and he has a team filled with plenty of young, up and coming horses who have not hit their handicap levels yet so you can see the names that will be the source of his wins. 
He is also leading the way amongst trainers with 17 wins from his last 100 runners, four ahead of Fownes, who has also been in form with 13 wins from his last 100.
 
(Note, apprentice jockey ratings reflect performances with their allowance "built in". As their claim reduces and they compete on a more equal footing, we expect their rating to deteriorate unless they are top class riders.)
​These ratings are updated regularly and designed to reflect current form but with past figures also putting a brake on hot-streak performers or uplifting a long-term quality player having a quiet run.