Prepared by Tom Mulholland, Borntaburn ($5.50) broke clear 200 metres from the finish and won as he pleased by 1-3/4 lengths from Chennai Moon ($9, Jon Grisedale) with Adrian Robinson’s mount Covered in Gold ($8) a length away third.

Even before he dismounted Lister sung the praises of the gelding.

“That was never in doubt,” Lister told Mulholland.

“He had plenty left at the 100 metres and that was it. Even back at the 600 he was never going to get beat.

“You have to ride him dead but when he wants to go you just go with him.”

Most of the pre-race attention was focused on the $2.60 favourite Courtarena (Kacie Chater) but the Paul Lewis, Orange trained gelding never fired and after being last at the 700m was never in the race and eventually finished seventh.

Borntaburn went into the race after an eye catching last start third at Narromine, beaten by two lengths by Metrics.

Dubbo resident Brent Vannus owns the winner with his wife Celina who brought along her dad (Barry Clarke) to the races yesterday.

“This is our first horse trained by Tom (Mulholland) and he has done a really good job with him to get him here today,” Brent Vannus said.

“The horse ran well and the jockey produced a great ride, it was as simple as that.”

The Mulholland racing stables brought up a winning double in the Tim Koerstz Pharmacy Rating 67 Handicap (100m) when $3.80 favourite Zelta Glo won with something in reserve with Clint Lundholm in the saddle.

Zelta Glo is owned by Neil and Margaret Johnson and their family and has now won four times from 26 starts - two wins coming for Mulholland.

The now five-year-old mare was formerly trained by Michael Lynch at Cowra and won her maiden at Wellington in January 2006.

Earlier in the day Greg Ryan showed punters why they have such a high regard for him when he guided Fuji Mojo ($2.30 fav) to a gutsy win for Gulgong trainer Mark Milton in the Purastock Maiden Plate (1200m).

Ryan nursed the mare along mid-field for the most part but when an opening appeared in the closing stages the jockey backed himself and got the job done.

“I watched her run last start at Muswellbrook and she appeared more comfortable with horses in front of her,” Ryan said.”

“As a result, my pre-race plan was to hold her up as long as I could then when we got a clear run at the furlong she found herself in front before she knew where she was.”

Weight fails to stop King Rex

King Rex was in a class of his own when he carried 65kgs to victory in the $10,000 Tamworth Street Shopping Centre Winter Sprint (1000m) at Dubbo yesterday.

He was asked to ‘carry the grandstand’ and a stack of punters’ money but was still able to win by 2-1/2 lengths as the $3 favourite.

Jockey Clint Lundholm had the Tom Mulholland trained gelding race mid-field on settling off the fence and when the field straightened for the run home he took a position about five horses off the rails and the result was never in doubt.

“He travelled well all the way,” Lundholm said.

“It was a very good effort.”

Second in the race was Greg Ryan’s mount Spock ($4.60) with Difuyung ($15, Jeremy Hammond) third.

Ryan said his decision to go to the inside of the track possibly wasn’t the right one and while he thought he may have got closer to the winner, he conceded King Rex was just too good.

Owned by Peter and Patsy Carolan and Polly and Gary Kimmorley, King Rex has now won 13 races from 57 starts and more than $477,000 in prize money.