The four-year-old gelding had been placed in four of his previous eight career starts and was well supported by punters in winning impressively over 2200m, much to the relief of Symons.

"We were thinking that (he deserved a win) - we were wondering what would happen," the trainer told broadcaster Racing.com

"(He ran) a strong race last time and another good race today - he got the job done."

Symons indicated the gelding, who has had seven runs this preparation, starting on June 9, had thrived on racing.

"He has been up a fair while and we have been contemplating when to turn him out, but while he is racing well and feeling well ... he lives in a paddock during the day and he seems to be happy with himself," he said.

"He is doing a great job. He took a little while to learn how to race and settle a bit, but he settled really well today and you saw it in the finish."

Winning jockey Clayton Douglas insisted the gelding had fully deserved the win.

"He's been ultra-consistent and (the owners and trainer) have been very patient," he said.

"He got the right run, he followed the favourite (Fields Of Yulong) into the race and just sprinted to well for it."

Bedouin King was the sole locally-trained winner on the eight-race card.

Luke Currie took the riding honours with a treble, including a double for the team of Tony and Calvin McEvoy, with Royalty and the ultra-impressive Pretty Brazen, who blitzed his rivals in a 1300m class one handicap.

There were training wins also for the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace and Matthew Ellerton and Simon Zahra teams, Robbie Griffiths, Danny O'Brien and Anthony Freedman.

The next Bendigo meeting is on October 9.

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