The 4yr-old Live Or Die mare has now registered five wins from her 24 starts and is providing a happy ending to what her trainer, Robbie Holmes, describes as a ''a sad story''.
Her mother, Elsurah, had the blessing and the curse of being particularly well bred as a full sister to Interdominion champion Elsu.
The daughter of Falcon Seelster came south after qualifying at Pukekohe in late 2007 for Geoff Small.
''She got sent south ... to get away from everyone comparing him to her up there,'' Holmes said.
Elsurah was in the early stages of her career when injury came knocking after five starts.
''She ran a nice placing then we nominated her the next week and she did her tendon the day before the race.
''In my mind, she drew handy and could have won that night.''
Instead, Lurah is now doing the job for her mother and her owners, Les Girls No2 Syndicate, which also raced Elsu.
Lurah had been adequate in two runs at Blenheim last month, but Holmes felt she needed to be screwed down with a trial at Ashburton on Tuesday, which she won.
''She didn't race too badly up there, but it was basically to try and get her a bit fitter,'' he said.
''She'll just go through the grades - she's not one we would back up, so she'll probably go round in a fortnight's time.''
Lurah continued her good association with female drivers with Kimberly Butt in the sulky yesterday for the junior drivers' race.
Lurah had won a invited women drivers' race at Timaru in May.
Lurah was one half of Butt's first-ever driving double, as she also steered home her uncle Tim's horse Pantheon to clear maidens in race four.
A steady speed made the back-markers' task in the c2 and faster trot almost impossible, but it worked out perfectly for the ever-consistent Valmagne.
The Josh Kennett-trained 6yr-old displayed his usual tidy manners and trailed Sunoflindenny most of the way before taking the passing lane to win in the hands of Samantha Ottley.
''I know the leader went solid and we had the trail, so it probably made it harder for the back markers,'' Kennett said.''
They're nice horses but just the handicaps helped us out, anyway.''
Valmagne has endured a busy season with all 37 of his career starts coming in this term, and Kennett is undecided what to do next.
''We could turn him out as well as he's had another win and he's been up for a while, but we'll just see. Kurow [in August] might be worth a look.''
Speights Girl set a track record for 3yr-old fillies over 2000m when she paced 2.26.9 to win the c2 mobile pace.
The filly's win, breaking Flying Anvil's 2012 record by 0.1sec, also marked the 197th success this season for Dexter Dunn.
