Kuala Lumpur trainer Wayne Lim was again able to mix business and pleasure with happy results in Ipoh on Dec 14.
It was just last month that the 45-year-old trainer earned the highest accolade of his 12-year-long career, in the Perak capital with former Macau competitor Mega Gems handing him his maiden Group 1 win in the Coronation Cup (1,600m) on Nov 3.
On that red-letter day, he brought home a brace for good measure with Chosen One also getting on the board.
The bonus is the simple post-race celebrations with a home-cooked meal at his parents' place in the Ipoh suburb of Jelapang.
That is one of the reasons Lim always looks forward to the two-hour road trip whenever the Perak Turf Club stages a meeting. Win, lose or draw, home will be where the heart is.
Since the Coronation Cup watershed moment, Lim seems to have kept up an even richer vein of form in Ipoh.
Bar the Nov 30 meeting when he had only one unplaced runner, he has hit the scoreline with doubles, repeating the feat at the latest raid with a similar haul.
Granted Aragon Pegasus' ($25) win in a RM18,000 (S$5,500) Class 5B race (1,100m) and No More Delay's ($12) in a RM35,500 Class 4A race (1,200m) do not hold a candle to a Coronation Cup win.
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