Crawford is the ‘smartie’

STALWART former Cape Town-based trainer Brett Crawford scored a double in Hong Kong yesterday to get off the mark on the island and it was a great day overall for expat South Africans because Luke Ferraris and Keagan de Melo rode one-two in the feature race of the meeting.

- DAVID THISELTON

Crawford's double means he is going at a strike rate of 28.5%, because in five meetings on the island he has only had seven runners in all, and it will have seem him climbing into midtable on the trainers’ log.

Teetan

Fittingly his winners were respectively ridden by Karis Teetan and Lyle Hewitson.

Teetan, a Mauritian South African Jockey Academy graduate, was Crawford's stable jockey in Cape Town at one stage.