The Shane Matheson-trained gelding swooped late to down a c0 field over 2200m at Forbury Park last night, showing natural improvement from his fourth placing on debut at Invercargill on April 21.
Matheson, of Gore, went to the yearling sales at Christchurch in 2013 and paid $33,000 for the son of Christian Cullen on behalf of a syndicate.
''I liked his full brother who Kirk Larsen had and he was just a nice type of horse.''
That full brother is Risk Factor, who has now claimed four wins, and the early signs for One Direction have been promising.
''It's taken a long time to get him here, but finally we got rewarded anyway,'' Matheson said.
''He's won most of his workouts and he's always shown a wee bit of speed, but he's just starting to come to it now.''
One Direction might have been defying his musical equivalents but O'Driscoll was paying homage to his father - and his mother - with his win in the maiden trot.
Just five days after great trotting sire Sundon was put down due to problems with arthritis and laminitis, O'Driscoll cleared maidens at his ninth start with a late surge to beat De Vito.
O'Driscoll is by Sundon which made the win timely enough, and his dam is Frances Jay Bee - the producer of top squaregaiters such as One Under Kenny, One Over Kenny and One Kenny.
One Under Kenny, One Over Kenny and Nice One Kenny are all products of Sundon out of Frances Jay Bee.
Frances Jay Bee, who died last year, had trouble getting into foal for several years, which prompted O'Driscoll's trainer, Robin Swain, to ask part-breeder Bruce Wallace if he could try to get the mare into foal.
After cleaning up problems with Frances Jay Bee's wind, Swain sent her to Keith Norman, at Bryleigh Stud, who was successful in getting the mare into foal with transported semen from Sundon.
The appropriate wins continued when Secret's Out won a c2 mobile pace on a night when horses who were sent to war were honoured.
Her owners, Graeme and Ann Mee, were both in attendance last night, performing dual roles as clerks of the course, a role generally filled by Graeme alone.
The husband and wife posed for the winners' photos on top of their horses, Smokey and Sam.
