But Diamond King's win on debut at the Forbury Park Trotting Club meeting at Gore was a little bit special.
Why? Because his fiance, Joelle Calder, was the main reason the 3yr-old was capable of winning a maiden race at his first crack.
Baynes, a dairy farmer at Chatton, paid $15,000 for the son of Stonebridge Regal - a half-brother to smart mare Ten Diamonds - at the 2013 yearling sales in Christchurch.
Calder has put in most of the ground work with Diamond King to the point where she prepared him to qualify for racingwith a 2.48.7 win over 2200m at Ascot Park in May.
That was set to be the gelding's lot for the season, until trainer Tony Stratford asked Baynes and Calder what the 3yr-old was up to.
Fast forward 24 days from his qualifying win, and Diamond King was in the winner's circle at Gore.
‘‘He'spretty tough,'' Baynes said. ‘‘He's green but he did qualify well and Tony said he has a few gears, so it's amatter of developing that.
‘‘But that was a tough run to sit three wide and it looked like he had plenty in reserve at the finish.''
Baynes and Calder enjoyed debut success earlier in the season when Envious won on debut in a 2yr-old fillies' race at Ascot Park in January.
Baynes also owned runner-up Gotta Bewitched.
More recently, The Sparrow Hawk was a debut winner at Maryborough in Victoria in May, while Baynes and Calder own open-class trotter Cool Cobber, who has just come back into work with Pukekohe trainer Derek Balle.
Stratford also struck earlier in the day with an overdue second win for Mach Of The Man,who kept rolling along to win the c1 2200m mobile pace.
It was the 26th start for the seasonfor the son of Mach Three, and Stratford had been wondering if a second career victory would come this year.
‘‘It was hard to believe he hadn't won a race until now, because he'sgone some cracking races,'' Stratford said.
''Now that he's a two-win horse, we might biff him out for a month and get him ready for those early races in Southland.
''I don't think he's the type of horse you want to put out for too long because it takes too long to get him back.''
