SCONE-based trainer Cameron Crockett praised Samantha Clenton for her ride after she steered Brother Bassy to a win in the Prime 7 Maiden (1280m) at Muswellbrook on Friday - and left the connections of Dreaming Of Gold lamenting yet again.
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"I don't know what was happening but my horse would not settle and it was only that Samantha is such a strong rider she was able to get him travelling," Crockett said.
"Perhaps he is trying to send me mixed messages.
"I thought early on he was going to be a good horse.
"But, now, I am not so sure and while many people thought he was going to be a stayer I don't think so."
Brother Bassy was wide early but Clenton was able to restrain him and get him on to the fence and trailing the favourite Dreaming Of Gold.
Dreaming Of Gold (Christian Reith) hit the lead in the straight but Clenton pushed Brother Bassy along the fence to overhaul her and win by half a length.
That was Dreaming Of Gold's sixth start and her sixth second including placings on the Beaumont track at Newcastle and at Hawkesbury.
Bjorn Baker regularly sends horses to Muswellbrook from his Warwick Farm stable and landed another winner when the heavily-backed Colesberg (Keagan Latham) won the Muswellbrook RSL Golf Club Benchmark 58 (1750m).
The horse was backed in from $4.40 to start the $2.70 favourite with Keagan settling him in third place on the fence.
In the straight he took advantage of the cutaway to go to the lead then held off More Spice (Mitchell Bell) to win by one and a half lengths.
Latham later made it a double when he won the Eaton's Hotel Class One (1000m) on Vox Pop, trained at Randwick by John Thompson.
Vox Pop sprinted away late to beat the Jan Bowen trained Emilette by one-and-three-quarter lengths.
