In her only ride on Coonabarabran Cup day on Monday, Webster-Hawes guided $11 chance Molasses to victory in the $27,000 Regional Australia Bank and Ausure Insurance Cup Day Sprint (1100m).

The win comes after the Cowra-based jockey guided Noble Hussler to victory, at $9.50 odds, in her only ride at Narromine on Saturday.

Webster-Hawes completes track work for Forbes’ Dennis Bush most weeks and that relationship helped the pair turn around the fortunes of Molasses, a former country championship qualifier hope that’s battled somewhat in his last couple of starts at Dubbo and Coonamble.

The six-year-old jumped well and was content to smoke his pipe just behind the early leaders – Epic Decision, Stoddard and Tully Ho – before surging at the top of the straight.

He then held off pre-race favourite, Derek Piper’s Our Dasha, to record his seventh career win.

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“He jumped better than I anticipated and we were stuck out on a limb a bit but it wasn’t too rough out there, I think, and we held on,” a thrilled Webster-Hawes said post race.

An emotional Bush was lost for words after the win.

“It’s terrific,” he said, refusing to write-off his champion gelding despite a couple of recent fifth-place finishes.

“I don’t think he’s been disappointing, the runs were but we’re not disappointed with him.”

The first of the Cup day’s feature races, the sprint lost a touch of its glitz and glamour with star sprinters Absolute Ripper (Alison Smith) and Nictock (Cameron Crockett) scratched from the meeting.

Our Dasha loomed the likely winner and was backed in as the $2.15 favourite pre-race, punters preparing to forget a last-start ninth at Warwick Farm and focus on the three-straight, impressive wins at Wellington, Warren and then Canterbury to start her preparation.

Epic Decision jumped nicely from barrier one, as did Molasses, but it was Graham Watts’ Tully Ho that enjoyed the early running of the sprint feature.

Greg Ryan and Our Dasha didn’t wait long to make their move and begun to loom large on the bend but battled to find a clear run as the pack emerged on the straight.

Molasses, though, had no such trouble and Webster-Hawes was able to steer Bush’s gelding to a nice half-a-length victory over Our Dasha on Cup day.

Under The Thumb ($4.60), for Sue Grills, was a head behind in third.