That was Karen McCarroll’s parting comment after Lord Burghersh had won Monday’s $15,000 Imperial Hotel Benchmark 65 Handicap (1400m) at Coonabarabran.

The Wellington trainer had nominated her grey gelding for the Coonabarabran Cup as well but, after drawing barrier 11 in the $40,000 feature, elected to run in the $15,000 B65.

“He’s been a good little horse for us,” McCarroll said.

“We got  him by default as a country cups horse but he’s done well for us.

“Little fish are sweet.”

She thinks the $25,000 Warren Cotton Cup (1600m) on Sunday, November 9 might be a nice race for the grey galloper.

Greg Ryan rode Lord Burghersh for his sister and then backed up to win his fourth Coonabarabran Cup with the Cameron Crockett-trained Are You Sure.

The gelding came from well back to grab Private Taber and Dusty’s Felt and set a new race and track record of 1min 32.82ecs, bettering All Again’s 2008 mark of 1min 33.51secs.

Crockett labelled  Ryan a genius after the Cup win.

“Nothing had really been winning from the back all day but Greg came out and told me where he would be in the run, when he would make his move and it all worked out. The bloke is a genius,” Crockett said.

“I’ve trained something like 20 winners and Greg has been on about 10 of them.

“He’s been great for my career.

“I was confident on the horse’s work that he was going well but they’ve been kicking dust up today and I was worried it would stop him from putting in.

“He’s the smallest horse in the race but he’s got the biggest heart.

“He just tries so hard all the time.”

Monday’s win was Are You Sure’s first over 1600m, although he had won over 1700m in the Wellington Cup earlier in the year.

He had also been placed in this year’s Gooree Cup, Parkes Cup and Coonamble Cup and run a close fifth in the Dubbo Cup for a combined losing margin in those races of less than three-and-a-half lengths.

“You look at his form and some of the comments say he has a poor strike rate at the distance but he’s been in some tough races and always high in the weights,” Crockett said.

“He got beaten by a slow tempo at Parkes, in the Gooree Cup he came from well back on a bog track and he wasn’t far off at Dubbo or Coonamble either.”

Crockett will now look to freshen up the gelding for a crack at his hometown Mudgee Cup (1600m), a race high on his bucket list as he shares in ownership of Are You Sure with his mother Cheryl Crockett, as well as Mudgee mayor Des Kennedy and his wife Carol Kennedy.

While Lord Burghersh might be headed to Warren, so too could be the Kylie Kennedy-trained Shadow Force.

The six-year-old gelding finished solidly to claim Armidale- trained Beyond Infinity (Geoff Snowden) and win Monday’s $20,000 Orana Mutual/Retreat Farm Cup (1100m).

Kennedy bought Shadow Force for just $1200 at a Sydney Tried Sale and has now won more than $80,000 with the son of Dane Shadow.