Sent out a $1.80 favourite, the Scott Brunton-trained four-year-old was given the ideal ride from barrier six by David Pires and eased away from the field down the straight to score a three-and-a-half length win.

The former Victorian horse now has two wins from three starts in Tasmania, and stepped up from her 1350 metre success to win over 1600m this time around.

Pires was pleased with the effort of Zipped Up in her first appearance at the track.

“It was a pretty impressive win on her first run at the track, she had a lovely run in transit, but when she hit the home turn she got a little bit lost,” he said.

“But she really stuck to her task over the last 200m to hold off the challengers.

“We stepped her up to the mile tonight and she does that easy enough, so maybe we could go further.”

LIGHTLY raced seven-year-old Wanaea caused an upset when she took out the $15,000 Class 5 Handicap over 1200m.

A renowned synthetic track specialist, the mare sat in second for most of the run before hitting the front with 200m to go and holding on for jockey Daniel Ganderton at the attractive odds of $15.70 in the field of seven.

The win was Wanaea’s first on grass in her 22 starts, 12 of which have been at Devonport where she had her last win back in January.

“She’s always been a talented mare, but just had a lot of issues,” Ganderton said.

“Credit goes to Mark (Ganderton, trainer) and connections – they’ve been very patient and allowed Mark to tinker around with her, and he’s done a good job.

“We’ve found a few things that were wrong with her and ironed them out.

“I rode her in a bit of work the other day and she feels like she is back to her best, but there was a little bit of trepidation coming back to the turf – she hasn’t been as adept on it as the synthetic the last couple of years, but I had a lot of confidence going to the gates and great confidence in the run as well.”

A QUICK change of plans proved no issue for Stephanie Thornton as the Geelong apprentice piloted heavily-backed favourite Remorse ($2.40) to victory in the Benchmark 62 race over 2100m.

The seven-year-old mare, trained by Scott Brunton, was expected to be up the front from the start, but looked anything like the winner down the side of the track after a solid tempo was set.

However once Remorse turned into the straight, she quickly overtook her rivals.

“The plan was to lead and go forward, and she jumped okay but just didn’t muster,” Thornton said.

“So we went back to plan b, rode for a little bit of luck and got the gaps.”