Exciting sprinter Dolcetto capped a near perfect day for trainer Sylvia Kay at Trentham on Saturday.
Kay won both feature races on the Trentham card when Dr Watson triumphed in the Trentham Gold Cup, then Dolcetto went on to win the Autumn Sprint Championship Final.
The Levin horsewoman believes the best is yet to come from the talented Dolcetto, who beat a field stacked with in-form emerging sprinters.
''He's a very good horse and he'll be even better in the spring,'' Kay said.
''I was a bit worried at the start of the week as the horse had a stone bruise, but thankfully we got over that,'' she said.
During the race, rider Sam Collett had to manouevre Dolcetto in sharply on the home turn when she was denied a run wide on the heavy Trentham track.
Dolcetto came down almost the same strip of the Trentham straight his stablemate, Dr Watson, did to win the Trentham Gold Cup under rider Robbie Hannam earlier in the day.
Hannam had the equal tote favourite travelling well in a beautiful one-one sit for much of the race before angling wider before the home turn, where Dr Watson out-muscled Blathwayt and topweight Bel Sorriso.
Kay almost finished with a perfect three at Trentham, but her runner, Sylvester, went down by a half-neck margin to the Polly MacDonald-trained El Bayardo in the last race.
Horses also faced a heavy 11 track at Ellerslie on Saturday where Haussmann won the listed Great Northern Foal Stakes for trainer Tony Pike and rider Vinny Colgan.
Pike was not confident his 2yr-old Pour Moi gelding would handle such wet footing and even after the race he had his doubts.
''He didn't really let down in the ground so it was a good effort, and we should have some fun with him as a 3yr-old,'' Pike said.
''He'll go out now and we'll have him back for some of those better races in the spring. He should get a strong mile [1600m] and maybe further.''
Michael Coleman advanced his tally of New Zealand riding wins to 1999 by scoring a double in the saddle at Ellerslie.
Coleman won with the Nigel Tiley-trained Megablast in open 1600m company and the Peter and Dawn Williams-trained Myrcella in a rating 65 sprint.
The 47-year-old will get his chance to notch his 2000th win as a jockey in New Zealand on his home track at Matamata on Wednesday.
-By Jonny Turner
-Additional reporting NZ Racing Desk
