In her first raceday outing last month she created a big impression with an emphatic, but green, winning performance.
The Claire Anderton-trained filly showed she was not just a raw talent but also a tractable racehorse in the making with a more polished performance to score again yesterday.
That meant mission complete for Anderton, who thought yesterday’s event would better improve the filly’s tractability than a more hectic race in next weekend’s Canterbury Belle Stakes.
"That is why we came here, to get more ringcraft, rather than going to the fillies’ race next week,’’ the trainer said.
"She would have learned a lot from that.’’
The Precious One’s next start is likely to be in the Guineas trial at Riccarton in early October on her path towards the One Thousand Guineas during New Zealand Cup Week.
Rider Chris Johnson noticed a real difference in the tractability of the daughter of classy Kiwi racehorses Darci Brahma and The Jewel from her first to her second win.
"She pinged the gates today and I thought I was going to lead and I didn’t want to,’’ he said.
‘‘When the pace quickened, she dropped over second and relaxed well and won well again.’’
Johnson scored a quartet of wins yesterday.
Two of them helped score a treble for trainers John and Karen Parsons, who had Mia Mumma and Letsbringiton fit and ready to win for him despite a lack of recent racing.
Mia Mumma scored after a perfectly judged frontrunning ride in race 4, in the mare’s first start since May.
Johnson then produced the same result on the same part of the track when he hugged the rails from the opposite end of the field aboard Letsbringiton, who was fresh up since April.
The Sebring gelding gave Johnson the feel of an above-average horse.
‘‘He is a nice horse. He is still very green and has a bit to learn, but he is a nice type,’’ he said.
Letsbringiton held out the late challenge of Zavistic, who put in an eye-catching performance to finish second after jumping slowly from the barriers.
Earlier in the programme, Johnson guided Secret Power to win the South Otago Cup.
The Anna Hewitson-trained 7yr-old wore down the leader, Flag The Groom, who finished third-equal with Somethings Burning, and held off the late challenge of Lochan Ora.
‘‘He travelled really well all the way in the one-one — he was quite keen, actually — then he let down well early in the straight and held them off.’’
His four wins elevated Johnson to second on this season’s national jockeys premiership with 10 wins, one behind leader Lisa Allpress.
The Parsons scored their other victory when apprentice rider Krishna Mudhoo pushed out Keep The Lot to win her first start since early July.
Rakaia trainer Terrill Charles and Peter Corbett produced a win at upset odds of 27-to-one in race 2 when Dee And Gee scored following an even longer break than the Parsons pair’s.
The 4yr-old last raced from Cambridge trainer Sean Richie’s stable in January before being shipped south and joining the Charles-Corbett barn.
