Gotta Rush looked impressive at the Tamworth Paceway on Sunday evening, out the Sky Active Pace by half neck over race favourite He's Novak.
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The narrow win was the reward for the Mr Feelgood mare's effort during the running of the 1980 metre event.
"She is stepping up every time she goes around - I am so impressed with her," owner-driver Sarah Rushbrook said.
"I was last in the running line - I got caught up in a bit of a scrimmage at the start so I ended up last."
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Gotta Rush commenced from the ten barrier, while Esspe Supreme (Dean Chapple) led the field and Threo from the Ricky Gordon stable, raced out in the breeze.
"She is a tough little bugger - I launched her three wide as we came into the home straight to get the bell," Rushbrook said.
"I thought they weren't walking up front, but I wasn't going to sit there and wait for them to get sprinting."
After racing three-wide for a full lap, Gotta Rush secured her second win for the season and sixth in her 27-start racing career, over race favourite He's Novak and Corsinin a head away in third.
"She is just improving every time she goes around," Rushbrook said.
"I had her in the Maitland Inter City Pace heats the other week and she was probably a little bit outclassed, but she is going to have to start racing out of grade to improve and I feel she has got more in her.
"Her fastest winning mile rate (1.59.3) was when she won from in front here [Tamworth] at her last win and nothing took her on, so I know there is more there for her to give.
"We were three-wide pretty much until the home straight - she just kept kicking."
The Tamworth Harness Racing Club is now about to launch into their January racing carnival, from Wednesday January 15 with the running of The Pub Group Gold Nugget.
Rushbrook said she was mapping out the next start for Gotta Rush.
"We will look at the Tamworth carnival and I will decide if we will go in the Golden Guitar heats," she said.
"We will have a crack at something for sure during the carnival."
