Four of the six races were run at Narrandera on Saturday before the meeting was abandoned due to the state of the track and the poor visibility.

Cloud Nine ($3.80) was one horse who enjoyed success before the rain hit when he took out the $12,000 Narrandera Exies, Bidgee and Charles Sturt Hotel Maiden Handicap (1400m).

The five-year-old son of So You Think had been unplaced from six starts heading into the Narrandera meeting but put it all together to runaway with a dominant six and a half length victory, with Jordan Mallyon in the saddle.

A $90,000 purchase from the Melbourne Premier Sale, Duryea hopes the maiden victory is a sign of things to come.

"He was pretty impressive," Duryea conceded.

"He's a big immature bugger. We paid a fair bit of money for him, well, he owes us a fair bit of money, put it that way. To the people's credit, I've been telling them for 12 months, this horse can run, this horse can run and they keep saying, well, when's he going to start doing it? They've been really patient.

"Hopefully now the penny may have dropped. If it has, he's got enough ability and he's got the pedigree to go on with it. I'm just really hoping now that he's had a win, he might be able to keep putting it together and go on. It wasn't a fluke because he can run."

Duryea expects Cloud Nine to be better over further than the 1400m of Saturday's maiden win.

"He's got a lot of staying blood," he said.

"His mother didn't race, but her full sister won the New Zealand Oaks. She was a real good mare, won two or three group one races over 10 furlongs, a mile and a half.

"We bought him as a stayer but we didn't think it would take this long."

Trapper Tom ($18) won the feature, the TC Lee Memorial Cup Benchmark 58 Handicap (1400m) for the Jones-Joseph stable and Aaron Sweeney.

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