Run on a Heavy 10 big boned Husonique slogged through the conditions to snare a half length win over Scott Thompson’s Kemp.

It was Husonique’s sixth race start and followed a narrow second at Scone at his previous start.

“It was a real good run,” trainer Lesley Jeffriess recalled.

“He came from last. Greg Ryan rode him and ridden him the start before at Gunnedah too. He’s a big boy, a lovely horse though.”

Darren Jones booted Husonique home at Tamworth. The five-year old looks to have a bright future although just where that next run is Jeffriess couldn’t say.

“I haven’t really looked,” she said. “There will be a race for him somewhere. I was just looking to get through today and didn’t think we’d race when we got that storm here the other night.”

Rated a Heavy 8, the Wednesday night/Thursday morning storm dropped 5mm on the track, turning it from a Heavy 8 to a Heavy 10.

She also had Lonely Orphan in the Arlington Stallion Feature Benchmark 65 Handicap (2100m), but the four-year-old mare, one of the favourites, never handled the track.

Coonabarabran gelding Ima Baker did. The Wayne Martyn-trained five-year-old powered to a half length win from Paul Grills’ Kingston Time, notching a fourth win at his 20th start.

It was his second start at Tamworth for a second win too, Martyn beamed.