Trainer Ricky Yiu Poon-fai has his sights set on a start in the HK$23 million Longines Hong Kong Mile for Packing Pins after he turned the Lukfook Jewellery Cup into a procession at Sha Tin yesterday.

In what was seen as a match race between Packing Pins and Amazing Kids, champion jockey Joao Moreira had opted for Amazing Kids, but Zac Purton was happy to pick up the Brazilian's cast-off.

In the end, it was as a much a match as a bug meeting a windscreen as Packing Pins relished the strong tempo set by Multivictory and Precision King, strolled by Amazing Kids at the 200m and the John Size-trained favourite barely held on to third.

"I found a great spot from the gate and the hot speed helped him relax. If anything, I was niggling him to hold that position I had. When I asked him to extend, his response was sharp and that was very easy," said Purton.

It was Packing Pins' fifth win at 1,400m but the next step will be more of a test as he will lose Purton when Yiu jumps him from yesterday's Class Two to a mile for the first time and against Group Two company in the Oriental Watch Sha Tin Trophy (1,600m) at the end of the month against the established topliners.

"He will have a light weight in that so I need to find a new jockey and we will see if he can make it into the international races," Yiu said. "The aim has always been to go for the Hong Kong Mile but he still needs to get his rating high enough. So we will throw him in the deep end, he can run there and then three weeks later in the Jockey Club Mile to prove himself worthy of an invitation.

"He came here as a late three-year-old, didn't run until four but has just kept on improving every run. So far he hasn't been to 1,600m, so I hope he will perform the same way when he does. I actually thought about running at a mile last week and the owner preferred this race, but from now on he will have to go to the mile."

It was the second leg of a winning double for Purton after he had thrown David Hall-trained Brilliant Dream over the line first half an hour earlier. With the hot favourite So Fast engaging speedy Thor The Greatest in the lead, the pace was strong and Brilliant Dream couldn't go the pace early dropping back from his 1,400m win last start.

"It suited me anyway. David said don't push him too much early and when a few committed to going forward in front of me and I couldn't go with them, I let him settle where he was comfortable," said Purton, who stormed up to win easily before just prevailing in a three-way photo.

"At the 200m, I was going to win easily, at the 100m he was all out of gas and at the finish it was tight whether he had won or not but he was brave and he's very honest."

Hall admitted that Brilliant Dream was going to find life tougher now with top weight in Class Three but feels the five-year-old has really matured this season.

"It isn't easy once you're at the top of the grade and giving weight to progressive horses coming through, but he's better equipped to cope with it now as a more mature horse," Hall said. "Even if he makes it into Class Two with a light weight, he might be able to do something there."