Victorian Stephen Baster will leave his four-year job as Tylden-based Wadham Park's stable jockey to ride in Singapore from January 1.

The Singapore Turf Club announced yesterday that it had licensed Baster for six months, to June 30.

Baster (37) has more than 1000 winners to his credit, including 11 Group 1s. This season he has had 18 wins statewide, but only two in the city.

He is one of four riders granted licences by the Turf Club. The others are: Opie Bosson (31), New Zealand's 2009-10 premier jockey; Britain's Alan Munro (44), who will move back to Singapore from Japan; and Jose Verenzuela (43), who will be returning.

The club is looking to build up senior numbers next season with Vlad Duric and Ronnie Stewart returning to Australia.

Singapore's 2011 season ends with tonight's and Sunday's meetings at Kranji.

Brazilian Joao Moreira (153) is a runaway winner of the jockeys' premiership. South African Barend Vorster (82) has the rides to overtake Duric (83) in second spot.

Stewart sits in ninth place with 37 wins, just behind Danny Beasley (eighth, 39). The other Australian riding there, John Powell, is sixth with 42.

South African Patrick Shaw takes the trainers' premiership with 76 wins. The Australians: Steven Burridge, 62; Michael Freedman, 55; Cliff Brown, 55; Don Baertschiger, 51; Brian Dean, 40.

In Hong Kong tomorrow, the 3YO Bear Hero resumes after his Flemington flop - last behind Sepoy in the G1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) on Derby Day.

Brett Prebble will ride Bear Hero (by General Nediym) in the $HK2 million (about $250,000) Griffin Trophy (1400m) at Sha Tin.

Victorian Prebble rode Lucky Nine to win the G1 Cathay Pacific International Sprint (1200m) at Sha Tin last Sunday and had a double at Happy Valley on Wednesday, but remains a distant second to South African Douglas Whyte on the jockeys' premiership - 34-19 - almost four months into the season. Whyte has won the past 11 titles.

Another Victorian, Craig Williams, winner of the G1 Vase (2400m) on Melbourne Cup winner Dunaden at Sha Tin, has the mount on unbeaten colt Alfredo in the G1 Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes (1600m) for 2YOs at Nakayama in Japan on Sunday.