When Fortune Rising trots onto the Sungei Besi track on July 26, he will be shooting for an unbeaten run of four wins in a row.

Trained by Winson Cheng Han Yong, the Alabama Express gelding seems good to go in the featured Selangor Silver (1,300m).

The stars seem aligned for another brave showing from him, and his work on the morning of July 21 was indicative of a horse who has his mind on the job.

Sent out on a track which was rated “yielding”, Fortune Rising did a brisk trot before turning on the style to run the 600m in 37.3sec.

With three wins over the 1,100m and 1,200m trips previously, the four-year-old is a reliable sort.

When racing as Shangri La Express in Australia, he won two races at Randwick and Rosehill Garden, and Fortune Rising has not put a hoof wrong since arriving in Kuala Lumpur on Oct 17.

He won his first trial on Feb 24, clocking 59.95sec for the 1,000m when he was still under the care of trainer Richard Lim.

Two weeks later on March 8, Fortune Rising won on debut in an Open Maiden contest (1,200m) by an easy 1½ lengths.

He was back on the job in a Supreme B race (1,200m) on March 29 and beat Banker’s Emperor by three parts of a length.

Fortune Rising was off the scene for 93 days when he switched to Cheng’s yard.

He returned on June 30 for a trial which he won in 1min 00.04sec.

Then came that last run in a competitive Class 2 race (1,100m) on July 7, when he was backed down to prohibitive odds.

He justified that confidence, romping in by a convincing 4¼ lengths.

In that process, Fortune Rising also gave Cheng’s apprentice jockey Lim Weng Hooi his first victory since his riding debut in June.

Come July 26 at his fourth Malaysian start, the Lee Swee ...