"I've been there and done worse plenty of times," White quipped.

The highlight was Defiant ($6.50) ending a run of minor placings for his first win since May with a powerful finish in the Ultimate Machete at Tipperary Equine Pace (2270m).

Driver Peter McRae and Defiant launched a winning run from before the home turn, comfortably rounding up the leader Dressed in Gold ($1.45f), which was edged out for second too when 100-1 shot Bettorz Beach closed quickly.

It's four wins (and nine placings) from 16 starts for the three-year-old.

"He went good," White said. "He's not a champion but he's pretty handy, he's just had bad draws...and he was drawn on the outside again."

White will aim Defiant at the regional series of the breeders challenge later this month. Earlier, Imperious ($2.70f) missed his first win in two years when run down by Movin On Up (trained by Gavin Lang) while White was pleased with He's a Terror's second in the opening event, going down to the Steven Harris-trained Treacheroustimes.

Exciting ex-Kiwi pacer Romanee ($1.18f) lived up to pre-race expectations with an all-the-way win for Jackson Painting and Euroley trainer David Kennedy in the $10,000 Club Menangle Supports Regional Racing Pace.

It's two in a row for the three-year-old since coming to Kennedy, despite a setback after his first win in early October.

"He got tangled up in the jogging machine about a month ago and bruised himself up pretty bad... but he seemed to hit the line pretty well so we're happy and hopefully it's onwards and upwards," Kennedy said.

"He was up in grade as well. He's only a 54 in an up-to-65 race so hopefully we can keep charging along. There's a couple of syndicates in the ownership so hopefully they're happy with their purchase."

Forever Yin ($2.40f) brought up 10 career victories, winning in a mile rate of 1.53.6 in the last event of the day over 1740m.

The Ellen Bartley-trained gelding, driven by Charlie Castles, has now taken his winnings to almost $105,000 with a strong finish to down Boyd Writer (David Hewitt) by more than two metres.

Driver Blake Jones enjoyed a race-to-race double steering Todd Day's Western Belle and Michael Hawke's I'm In Trouble to success in the middle of the program.

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