A daring ride from jockey Blaike McDougall aboard Our Dreamsarefree was instrumental in trainer Gordon Yorke landing his second winner since returning from suspension at Albury on Saturday.
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McDougall made a race winning move in the $22,000 Benchmark 58 Hcp, (1600m) when he released the brakes at the top of the straight.
Our Dreamsarefree quickly put five lengths on his rivals despite carrying top weight of 60kg.
Although getting tired on the line, the $4.40-second favourite had a neck to spare over the fast-finishing Frank The Yank for Team Ledger.
Yorke paid tribute to McDougall who was in red-hot form at Albury after notching a winning treble.
"I told Blaike that we have got 60kg because you are on the best horse and to ride him like the best horse in the race," Yorke said.
"I thought he would be running out of petrol late and the light weights would be charging at him from everywhere.
"Especially when the track got to a heavy 9.
"So we had to serve it up to them and were lucky enough to get away with it."
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Our Dreamsarefree is only a lightly raced five-year-old gelding with Saturday's victory his second from nine career starts.
The son of Tavistock started his career in New Zealand where he won and was placed on three occasion in five starts.
"I think his best is still to come," he said.
"I don't train horses on breeding and bloodlines, I train the horse.
"I'm still getting to know the horse and I'll let him tell me what suits him best.
"My gut feel is he will be better when he gets over a bit more ground.
"When you start out with a new horse, it's a bit like juggling ice cubes on a hot summer's day.
"You have to be careful that you don't keep them up too long or you have got nothing left.
"But I'm not afraid to think outside the box and try a few different things.
"Several of the horses in my stable are from New Zealand and have to acclimatise."
Yorke is a talented horseman who has got an uncanny knack of rehabilitating injury-prone gallopers and nursing them back to full fitness.
"I have done consultancy all around the world with laser treatment," he said.
"I have had a bit of success of fixing horses that have injuries.
"When you push horses to the limit things can come undone and you have to be able to identify that before it happens.
"I did earn a bit of a reputation as a horse whisperer.
"If you go back over my career I had a lot success with repaired horses that other trainers had thrown onto the scrapheap.
"Horses like Pimpala Prince who won twice at group level for me."
