During yesterday's rare Friday afternoon meeting at Dubbo Paceway, the gelding led virtually the whole race and make it one win from one career start.

Trained at Dubbo by Peter Gavin and driven yesterday by Mat Rue, Karloo Damajor ($1.70 fav) showed some signs of inexperience but in the end had too much class for the rest of the field.

"He's definitely got a lot of potential, he's very green and doesn't know a lot but he'll take a lot out of today and it's all forward from here," Rue said after the win.

"When the gate left he wasn't really sure, I think he's only been behind one a couple of times so he wasn't sure what to do but once I got him moving down the back we got to the lead and it was never really in any doubt from there but he did do a lot of looking around today."

Despite his raw performance, Rue managed to keep Karloo Damajor's mind on the job during a professional performance in the gig.

After getting to the lead when the field entered the back straight for the first time, Rue never gave it up.

The Steve Turnbull trained-and-driven Purple Shades ($4.80) threatened at different stages but had to settle for second, just over two metres behind.

Grenfell trainer-driver Mark Hewitt was further back in third with Jumping Jack Jimmy ($4.00)

Karloo Damajor, by Art Major out of Karloo Ronnie, hadn't had a huge deal of preparation in the lead up to yesterday's meeting and there were nerves in the Lew and Gavin camp in the lead up to the race.

But with the first win now out of the way, Rue admits the focus can now turn to Bathurst's illustrious Gold Crown carnival.

"With a bit more experience he'll be better, they'll get another trial into him, but his main aim now is the Bathurst Golf Crown so I doubt he'll race between now and then but they might slip a trial in and that will do him good and hopefully we can get him into that Bathurst final," he said, before speaking about the challenge of racing at the Gold Crown.

"It's always a very hard race, barrier draw comes down to it a lot because there's so many heats and you've pretty much got to win one of those to get a start but if he can get a bit luck he's definitely got the ability to be a chance."

Rue also took time to praise the work of Gavin and said he thoroughly enjoyed riding for the Dubbo trainer for the first time.

"He does a great job with all his horses, I've never driven one of his before but raced against them a lot and know they're prepared well and fit so you can drive them that way," he said.