The Wingatui crowd roared like few times before in recent seasons when Petty’s Legacy stormed home to win on debut on Saturday.
The Claire Anderton-trained 2yr-old got plenty of vocal encouragement from her large group of owners as she charged down the outer
to score a narrow but impressive win over 800m in the second race of the day.
They cheered in celebration, too.
The Sweynesse filly is out of 10-win Danroad mare Petty Lane.
She is raced by The Southern Ness Syndicate, which is made up of more than 50 members.
"Leanne McGuiness, who owns Petty Lane with her partner, Dave McCone, put the group together," Anderton said.
"There are 54 of them all together."
Anderton plans to take a patient approach with Petty’s Legacy.
She will not be tempted by the coming 2yr-old features at Riccarton and will instead send her filly for a spell.
"Since she had a jumpout I was tossing up whether to run her today or not," Anderton said.
"She was wanting to go and she had just lightened up a little bit, so I am quite keen to put her in the paddock.
"She will make a lovely 3yr-old."
Anderton was expecting a bold run from Petty’s Legacy.
"She is pretty natural and I have always liked her. I expected her to run well.
"But experience is usually paramount in these races. I thought her lack of experience might cost us."
Anderton was not the only trainer to cash in on her home track on Saturday.
Brian and Shane Anderton won the 1600m open handicap when Gallant Boy powered out of the pack to win.
The 9yr-old relished a rare opportunity to not carry the top weight in a handicap race, which came courtesy of Rahul Beeharry’s 3kg claim.
Gallant Boy had 57kg on his back in posting his 12th career win.
The Steven Prince-trained Mustard had earlier scored a deserved maiden win over 1600m.
And Kerany, trained by Terry Kennedy, later charged home to win in rating 65 company over 1200m.
