Jack Smith has achieved a huge amount in the racing game but winning the inaugural Brother Fox Dubbo Cup Final at what he considers his home track was something special.
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The leading Forbes trainer and wife Maree Smith had plenty of reason to celebrate on Friday night they took out the quinella in the new $40,000-to-the-winner feature final.
The exciting Jungle Deuce delivered on his potential to take out the win in impressive fashion while kennelmate Irinka Riley was second in front of a stellar crowd at the Dubbo track.
"It doesn't get any better than that," the trainer more well known as 'Jack' said after the win.
"This is right up there. We like any of them though, we're happy winning a maiden let alone a $40,000 race."
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On a night where Smith's retired Group 1 winner Feral Franky paraded around Dawson Park much to the delight of his cult following, the respected trainer was showcasing some of his new stars on the track.
As well as the headline-making Brother Fox effort, Smith also won the Bill and Peg Miller Memorial 0-2 Win Series Final (516m) with the promising Miss Ezmae.
Much was expected of Jungle Deuce in the Brother Fox series after he broke the Dubbo track record during a scintillating recent trial.
He hadn't been at his absolute best since then and qualified for Friday's final when finishing third after being slow out of the boxes in his heat a week prior.
The six box also provided a challenge in the final but his class came to the fore in a big way.
Jungle Deuce ($6.10) got away well and after trailing Irinka Riley ($5.20) early he found the rail and powered to the lead at the top of the back straight and cruised to a two-and-a-quarter length victory.
John Finn's $2.80 favourite Zipping Kyrgios ran home well to nab third after getting stuck wide early in the event.
"He's done a great job. He'd been out of form the last couple of races but he just had no luck go his way," Smith said of Jungle Deuce.
The win took Jungle Deuce's record to an imposing 10 wins from 16 starts and while he had already been highly regarded, he's now marked himself as one of the major players in the state.
A trip to Queensland now beckons as Smith has his eyes on the Group 2 Flying Amy Classic and potentially the State of Origin Series.
Earlier in the night, Miss Ezmae had put her name up in lights for Smith.
After a strong win at Bathurst in her second start earlier this month, Miss Ezmae qualified for the Bill and Peg Miller Memorial by finishing second in her heat.
In Friday's final she was simply electric, winning by more than eight lengths as the $2.60 favourite to mark herself one to watch in the future.
The win was particularly special as Peg Miller may have been known as Peg but her first name was actually Ezmae.
"I think she had a bit of help from above," Smith said to thedogs.com.au after the win.