Boys Night Out secures trainer Matt Dunn his 39th Highway victory at Rosehill after 46-week drought
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Leading country trainer Matt Dunn ended a 46-week drought Highway drought when Boys Night Out made light work of his opposition at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
Dunn, the state's most successful Highway Handicap-winning trainer, last won one when Cranky Harry saluted at Royal Randwick on July 13 last year.
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Boys Night Out's 1500m win was Dunn's 39th Highway victory and winning jockey Aaron Bullock said the four-year-old gelding has bigger things ahead.
'It's not often you get one that's a standout in a Highway but today I was confident that was the case,' Bullock said.
'He was dynamite. He's better than a Highway horse.'
Bullock's only concern during Saturday's contest was a foreign object being carried by Anna Roper aboard Straight Fire.
'In the early stages Anna (Roper) crossed me with the towel flapping all over the joint,' he said.
'She must have forgotten to get rid of it before the race and it wasn't until after we'd gone about 400m, when luckily she'd crossed me and gone down to the fence, that the towel went flying.'
Boys Night Out made use of barrier two, never further than a few horses off the speed before being eased out into clear running from the top of the straight and the race was quickly put to bed.
The son of Nay Nay Never (USA) started the $2.80 favourite and defeated My Last Hooray ($13) by 3¾ lengths with the $3.20 second favourite Warrior For Peace a half-length back in third.
'Soft draws always help and I was able to put him into the perfect spot, he got into lovely rhythm and I was saying 'woo boy' at the corner,' Bulloch said.
'He was getting through the ground really easily and it was a case of going at the right time and in the end it didn't matter because he had plenty on them.'
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