Basil Marcus, seven times champion jockey in Hong Kong, rode his second winner since deciding to settle permanently in Britain when taking the first race at Ascot today on Hannibal Lad.
The 43-year-old South African, who rode 19 winners in Britain over two short spells in the 1990s, produced his mount with a well-timed challenge to lift the Bonusprint Handicap by a length from St Helensfield, with Rapier a neck away in third.
Octane, the favourite and a stable companion of the winner, was another neck away in fourth.
This was trainer Mark Brisbourne's 24th winner of the year. He said: 'Putting my neck on the block I'd have fancied Octane more, but Seb Sanders said the pace of the race was all wrong for him and he didn't have the best of runs up the straight.'
Hannibal Lad was gaining his sixth win from 16 starts this year and his trainer said: 'He's only had a saddle on his back once since he ran in the Old Newton Cup at Haydock last Saturday and he's only done about three furlongs.
'If the horse isn't fit now, then God help him. My motto is that if you are going to run horses regularly, providing you don't gallop the guts out of them at home then you run them when they're fit and well.'
