Darren Weir and Craig Williams combined for the second successive year when Gotta Keep Cool scored a game win in the $400,000 Hobart Cup.The Ballarat trainer and Melbourne's three-time premier jockey Williams landed the Group Three feature with runaway winner Offenbach last year.Weir has now won three out of the past four Hobart Cups as True Courser won in course record time in 2006."It's a great thrill," Weir said."The horse was set for this race and it has come off."Weir was especially pleased

Darren Weir and Craig Williams combined for the second successive year when Gotta Keep Cool scored a game win in the $400,000 Hobart Cup.

The Ballarat trainer and Melbourne's three-time premier jockey Williams landed the Group Three feature with runaway winner Offenbach last year.

Weir has now won three out of the past four Hobart Cups as True Courser won in course record time in 2006.

"It's a great thrill," Weir said.

"The horse was set for this race and it has come off."

Weir was especially pleased for the owners, brothers Ian, Phillip and Graham Wood who have been loyal supporters of the stable.

"They haven't had a good horse. This horse's mother (Luskin Star mare Cellar Dweller) won her first two as a two-year-old but went wrong," Weir said.

The plan was to slot Gotta Keep Cool in midfield, but the Racer's Edge five-year-old was trapped three deep most of the way.

"It wasn't ideal but we knew we had a fit horse and Craig does his form well," Weir said.

Gotta Keep Cool wore down the Anthony Cummings-trained Zavite, who got up on the inside of race leader Hidden Wonder at the 1000m and kicked clear at the top of the straight.

However Gotta Keep Cool came out after him and got up by a head.

They cleared out on the rest of the field with Dream Pedlar, a placegetter in last year's Tasmanian Derby, four-and-a-quarter lengths away third ahead.

"He's a promising horse and he might improve as he gets over further," Weir said of Gotta Keep Cool, who has won eight of his 30 starts.

"I thought last campaign when he matured he'd be a good horse.

"This was his race. It doesn't matter what he does now. The Launceston Cup would be a bonus, we'll have a look at it."

The Group Three $300,000 Launceston Cup (2400m) is run on February 25.

Williams said he wasn't concerned Gotta Keep Cool was trapped wide in the run.

"He was able to sit three wide and do what he did because Darren had him fit and right," he said.

"He was always in his comfort zone."