The three-year-old dominated his rivals to make it four wins from eight starts in the Southwest Stockfeeds Wagga Winter Hcp (1000m).

Coming off a down the track effort at Morphetville last time out, McCarthy was thrilled with the 2½ length win.

“He’s always been a nice horse,” McCarthy said.

“At Wangaratta he was really, really impressive and it was great to see him turn the luck around from last start.

“He was desperately unlucky in Adelaide, and made him look a little bit ordinary from a wide gate, but from the good gate today he’s made amends. 

“There is a lot better days ahead for this fella.”

Given a freshen up since the Adelaide race, McCarthy is now plotting giving the son of Kaphero a crack at city three-year-old racing before the season is out.

However he’s not sure whether to head to Sydney or Melbourne.

The Wangaratta trainer decided to head to Wagga to give the son of experience with the NSW way of going.

“The reason for coming here was to give him the experience this way and give him the option of going to Melbourne or Sydney,” McCarthy said.

“He certainly passed with flying colours and should be competitive.”

McCarthy didn’t have the same luck with his other runner Newrons, with the $3.80 favourite finishing seventh.

Coming off impressive Corowa win following a long injury lay-off, McCarthy didn’t think the three-year-old handled the false start.

“He was a touch disappointing but he was obviously by far the least experienced horse in the race and with the false start it just fired him up a little and he just overraced,” he said.

“He straightened up and looked like the winner, but had just done a bit too much until then.”

The barrier stalls opened before the entire field was loaded, but chief steward John Davidson could not find anything at fault.

“There wasn’t a reason here, the starter wasn’t near the button, we looked at the film and sometimes you might get a horse that lunges forward and strikes the gate, but there was no evidence of that,” Davidson said.

“The barriers are tested when they are put on the track at the start of the day and after this we instructed the starter to carry out a further test, which he did do and could find no fault with them.”

Meanwhile, Danettrille extended his lead in the Wagga-based horse premiership with back-to-back wins on the track for trainer Gary Colvin.

It was part of a late race-to-race double for Colvin who also took out the last race with Snippet Of Gold.

Both horses where ridden to victory by Nick Souquet.