Born 12 August 1967, he assisted his trainer father Lawrie for several seasons before taking over the mantle in 2003/04. Eclipsed his father's best season stats in his rookie year with 44 winners and in 2006/07 he won his first trainers' premiership. His most famous victory that year was with The Duke in the G1 Cathay Pacific HK Mile of 2006. He has a particularly good strike-rate with his runners at Happy Valley where on 20 June 2010 he sent out six winners in a single day – levelled the record in Hong Kong’s professional racing era. Won second premiership in 2008/09 and second in the table in 2009/10, the season in which he enjoyed his first HKG1 Mercedes-Benz Hong Kong Derby success with Super Satin and followed up with victory for Green Birdie in the G1 KrisFlyer International Sprint in Singapore. He trained 66 winners in 2009/10 for a current career total of 381.