Hong Kong’s champion jockey has notched 145 winners or more in five of the last six seasons but Joao Moreira believes it is unlikely it will take a haul of that size to snare this season’s title.

Pure weight of numbers make it almost impossible to bet against short-priced favourite Joao Moreira in the Jockey Challenge at Sha Tin on Monday. Not only is Moreira the only jockey with a mount ...