The 37-year-old three-time champion jockey took the honours in the International Jockeys' Challenge, in which he finished second last year, with wins on Glory Star and Experto Crede.
He saw off a top team of international talent including world's best Ryan Moore, French ace Christophe Lemaire and Aussie star Hugh Bowman.
The Newmarket-based Brazilian ace's talents have not been lost on the Hong Kong-based trainers and he has been in great demand since starting a winter spell there at the beginning of last month, which has yielded eight wins.
After landing the title he said: "I was very lucky, I couldn't do it without the horses.
"The support at home has been going from strength to strength."
Nico de Boinville and Nicky Henderson out to bag big prizes on the way to the Festival
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