Jockey Chad Schofield bagged a race-to-race brace mid-card at Happy Valley on Sunday thanks to Flying Quest in race four and Khaki in race five.

The former gave Schofield his second win in tandem with trainer David Hall – the first came 15 months ago on the same horse.

“David Hall’s horses have been going really well,” the rider said. “He had the blinkers on today and that was a good addition – he was just that little bit sharper. I didn’t have the smoothest of runs from the 600 (metres) but when the gap did come, with the blinkers on, he dashed and won quite well.

Tony Millard is a more regular source of winners for Schofield and the pair teamed up with Khaki who looked a cut above in winning the fifth, a Class 4 over 1200m.

“We had a direct plan of what do because he wasn’t drawn well (8),” Millard said. “But Chad had the horse underneath him and I don’t think it was a particularly good field.”

Trainer and jockey are confident the five-year-old will prove up to the task in the grade above.

Khaki surges clear to give Schofield a double, picture Hong Kong Jockey Club

“He’ll be competitive in Class 3,” Schofield said. “We had a plan to send him forward – I had to do a lot of work to get him across and when I eventually found myself outside the leader I was able to back him off and control the speed. He was very good in the straight, he gave me a kick again.”

Nordic Warrior has a long climb up the ratings if he is to ever match his full-brother Slade Power, a G1-winning champion sprinter in Europe, but the three-year-old Hong Kong International Sale graduate earned his breakthrough win in race three, a class 4 over 1200m.

“He doesn’t look like he has that speed (of his brother) but he might be one for the Griffin races,” trainer Richard Gibson said.

“I thought it might be a bit easier for a horse running first time at the Valley to come here during the daytime rather than at night – less of a challenge. The horse has always shown a bit of ability, he ran well on debut and has been a bit unlucky, so with a decent draw we thought we had a good chance.”

Trainer Me Tsui landed a treble with Starlit Knight, Almababy – both ridden by Jack Wong – and Dragon Pioneer, the mount of Vincent Ho.

The opener went to Karis Teetan aboard the Danny Shum-trained Clement Legend, while the Manfred Man-trained Jade Fortune took race seven, the Class 2 Kap Shui Mun Handicap (1650m), under Keith Yeung.

Hong Kong racing continues at Sha Tin on Wednesday, 31 October.