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PARKES trainer Robert Harrison will head to Dawson Park full of confidence on Thursday after taking out the feature race on the Cowra racing calender on Monday.
Harrison has only one hope at Dubbo, Lethal And Ready, but Gunnadoo Silk's win in the John McDonald Memorial Final (453m) showed his kennel is in fine form.
The Parkes trainer will be hoping to reproduce his Cowra form at Dawson Park after Lethal And Ready scored the only win of his career there earlier this month.
Lethal And Ready also placed at Cowra last Saturday but is yet to even figure in the places in four starts at Dubbo.
In terms of Gunnadoo Silk's run at Cowra, a track Harrison considers his home, the trainer described the three-year-old bitch's victory as "her very best".
Gunnadoo Silk stopped the clock at 26.02s, getting home ahead of local hope Dana Watene, registering her fourth win in the process in a 22-career start career.
"Only if she jumped in front, that's the only hope we had and she did that," he said after the race.
"She won her heat pretty easy, the time wasn't overly special but she got out there today and the two favourites got in trouble and I got away.
"This is magnificent, especially on this track this is my home track.
"It's her best win, her very best win.
"We haven't been going really good lately but with some more luck now we'll be right."
Luck is what Harrison will be hoping for at Dubbo with Lethal And Ready taking part in a tricky Ladbrokes Live Play Stakes (318m). The Edward Pomfrett-trained Ballerina Dasher is shaping as the one to beat after four wins from her past five starts.
Another looking to make a mark is Betty Boo Boo, trained by Holly Speed, after some hot runs at Lithgow in recent times.
Thursday will mark her debut at Dubbo but she does come with a record of two wins, a second and a third in her past four starts.