The mastery of Dexter Dunn was on show once again at Forbury Park last night, and this time Tisbury trainer Kirstin Barclay was the beneficiary.
Dunn, who broke his own record earlier this month for the fastest 100 wins in a season, found himself facing the breeze for the duration of the 1700m fillies and mares mobile pace with Bettakatethanneva.
But Barclay knew that was no problem when the country's leading reinsman was in the sulky.
Dunn finds a way to be remarkably kind to the horses he drives, yet gets the most out of them - something that Bettakatethanneva struggles with.
''She often doesn't try - some days she goes really good and you're thinking `great, next week' and then she'll just plod along a bit,'' Barclay said.
''But she tried hard for him. I'm actually surprised how much she dug in up the straight. He doesn't knock them round - he only hit her three times. That's why he's the best - I'm rapt with the drive, really.''
Bettakatethanneva is well-named, as she is a replacement for her older sister Kates Back, who had two placings from three starts in 2012.
''We had big wraps on her - she was a really talented filly, but unfortunately she broke a pastern twice,'' Barclay said.
''[Bettakatethanneva] came down as a bit of a replacement and we've got two wins out of her now so she's done quite well.''
Barclay, who took over training Tom Kilkelly's team at the start of this season, said the Elsu mare didn't like to get too comfortable with her drivers.
''She seems to thrive on a change of driver - every time you try someone different, she comes out and puts in a good race,'' she said.
''We'll keep plodding around with her - I think she'll be all right in the c1 grade or there's the Golden Girls series over winter - she's the sort of horse that it would probably suit her.''
The combination of Rangiora trainer Tom Twidle and junior driver Katie Cox was in good touch at Forbury Park once again.
The duo teamed up to win the 4 & 5yr-old championship at Forbury Park in October with Woodlea Legend, but they had not managed to win a junior drivers race as a team until Woodlea DJ's victory last night.
Woodlea DJ enjoyed a big drop in class, after racing New Years Jay at Addington two weeks ago.
''It was a top run last week but in junior drivers races you never quite know if you're going to be attacked or whatever,'' Cox said.
''But it worked out pretty well.''
''The horse I handed up to [Spirit Of Chronos] was a tough sort of horse, so I was quite confident to get us to the lane.''
Cox was pleased to repay the support of Twidle and his wife, Sharon.
''Tom and Sharon have been so good to me, so it's nice to get the win down here for them.''
