Oh, what a night!

WHAT a night to remember it was for Sofia Arvidsson who turned the short trip from Terang to Geelong into a metropolitan-level bonanza for Matt Craven’s stable.

The relatively recent convert to the trots shone brightly in Geelong, driving Aldebaran Tess to win the Haras Des Trotteurs McNamara Memorial Trotters’ Cup and then Heza Son Of Agun to victory the Group Two Tatlow Stakes.

“I’ve had to put a few of my old ones out, so I had to pick a few new ones,” Arvidsson said. “I said during the week ‘well, all I have left then is Tess and (Heza Son Of Agun)’…that’s not so bad is it!”

Aldebaran Tess overcame to capture the feature.

Aldebaran Tess didn’t enter the fray until the final straight, when she overcome an apparent miss-step at the last turn to win by a short half-head from her stablemate Queen Of Crime.

“She lost a bit of ground around the turn and somehow she came back at them up the straight,” Arvidsson said.

“She was pulling so hard down the back and was pretty wide. I was just trying to keep her trotting, because she gets so competitive and when there are horses around her she just wants to go as fast as she can, and sometimes faster than she can.

“I’m just so grateful to sit behind this horse. Duncan (McPherson, owner) will be so happy, I knew if we trotted all the way we could be a chance, but I didn’t expect it to happen.”

The good times continued for the camp two races later when Heza Son Ofa Gun emerged from the pegs to secure the Tatlow Stakes for two-year-old colts and geldings.

After travelling two-back along the pegs, Arvidsson was able to swing from the pegs to be three-wide at the turn before sprinting to an easy win – securing Arvidsson’s richest win.

“I didn’t really expect him to win, there are so many nice two-year-olds and we were inside back row,” Arvidsson said. “You rely on a bit of luck, but geez he went good.

“This horse has just continued to improve. He’s just such a good little racehorse. He’s just kept getting quicker.

“We started galloping him a while back and that improved him, and this week we put him back on the straight track and he was just so much faster.

“I think he’ll just keep getting better, I think he’ll be a consistent racehorse. He might not be the absolute best, but I think he be a consistent racehorse and do a really good job.”

• HRV Media