Bryce Heys, the trainer, may have felt tension as Zac Lloyd masterfully took an inside rail run with burgeoning sprinter Banjora at Wednesday’s Rosehill races, but the rider faced no such concerns.

“Plenty of room,” Lloyd said.

“He’s a big horse, so he needs a bit more room than an average horse. He was just going that well he was able to bulldoze his way in there.”

The bold charge succeeded, with the $2.50 top pick shoving aside third-finisher Astronomix ($2.70) to power through on the fence and win by a length from $51 shot Beau Bandit, still keen at the wire.

Lloyd and the gelding had pulled off an identical feat at Gosford in their prior outing, and Heys noted he’d welcome drawing the unbeaten type off the inside.

“He is more than brave,” Heys said.

“Two starts in a row I can’t say he was looking pretty, and that I had any confidence we’d get the result, despite the horse’s ability, but to overcome that twice in a row now, not many can do it.”

The gelding’s probable next target is the 1200m Provincial-Midway Championships qualifier at Gosford March 14, potentially opening doors to the Provincial-Midway Championships Final (1400m) at Randwick in April.

“I was going to go to the Gosford qualifier for the Provincial Midway,” he said.

“The 1400 might be a query, but I thought against that class of horse, he might be alright.”

“Hopefully he ends up in the Provincial-Midway Championship.”

Chris Waller and James McDonald entered the day’s action one win from 500 mutual successes, denied narrowly when Almaaz was beaten a head by Fireball Miss and Soverato caught in the dying stages by Aisle Two.

They face four more bids for the achievement at Friday night’s Canterbury meeting.

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