"Away he goes again! He's 2 and a half in front! He's now won 40 million - he's looking for 16 in a row to equal Cigar ... too easy. He is just exceptional!"

So rang the words of race caller David Raphael this afternoon as Silent Witness easily secured his 15th straight victory and in doing so inched ever closer to Cigar's record.

The freakish son of El Moxie now also enjoys his own webpage on the HKJC website - and rightly so. Silent Witness is to marketing Hong Kong racing to the world as the pope is to the Catholic church.

Cape of Good Hope, not surprisingly, was unable to cope with the pressure of "2 countries, 1 week" and finished in the middle of the field.