Since joining the Rodney Robb stable at Nyngan the now seven-year-old gelding Austin has travelled vast distances between meetings.
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He's won 10 times along the way, with the latest being Saturday's Westrac Cobar Cup.
Initially trained in Sydney by Chris Waller, Austin had 15 starts and won a 1400 metres Maiden Handicap at Kembla Grange in 2016.
Now owned by Wayne Brown and partners, Austin has started 44 times for Robb and won at Warren, Trangie, Mallawa, Dubbo, Quambone, Louth, Cobar and the Queensland centres of Birdsville and Bedourie.
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A notable win came in the $50,000 Picnic Championship Final at Dubbo in September, 2018.
Wendy Peel, who is apprenticed to Robb, has been in the saddle for the recent Louth Cup, Bedourie Handicap, and Cobar Cup wins.
Judging the pace nicely, Peel led all the way on Austin ($2.20 favourite) when beating Cooee March (Michael Heagney, $3) by three-quarters-of-a-length with Another Plan (James Rogers, $3.40) more than five lengths away third in the 1700 metres feature on Saturday.
Robb had a successful day at Cobar as he also won with Moment Of Hope and Bray.
Both were ridden very well by Clayton Gallagher, who is also apprenticed to Robb.
Moment Of Hope ($2.20 favourite) had the run of the race before coming down the outside to win the Class 1 Handicap (1200m) by almost four lengths from Eagleworks (Rasit Yetimova, $10) and Red Russian (Heagney, $13).
Raced by several Tottenham Picnic Race Club committee members, Bray ( $1.60 fav.) was given a good run behind the leaders before winning by nearly two lengths from Late Return (Jake Pracey-Holmes, $5) and Bowie's Boy (Chelsea Ings, $8) in the Benchmark 50 Handicap (1200m).
Also having a strong day at Cobar was Parkes trainer Sharon Jeffries, who won with Not Negotiating and Indiana Wolf.
Formerly from New Zealand and now apprenticed to Kody Nestor at Dubbo, Kate Cowan had Not Negotiating ($8) in a nice position in a fast run race before finishing best to beat Magic Gift (Gallagher, $4.60) and the heavily backed leader Princess Zafirah (Pracey-Holmes, $2 favourite) in the Maiden Plate (1000m).
Indiana Wolf (Cowan, $4.40), after travelling third, took the lead but hung out in the straight and survived a protest to win the Class 2 Handicap (1370m) by a short-neck from Dizzy Success (Rogers, $10) with Admit One (Peel, $4.40) in third.
The trip from Dubbo by trainer Connie Greig was worthwhile as she won the the Benchmark 58 Handicap (1000m) with Call Me Trinity (Rogers, $9), which hit the lead then lasted to beat the fast finishing Plectrum (Ings, $6) by a short-head with Supreme Times (Gallagher, $5) a length away third.
