You wouldn't buy him if you saw him, says trainer Bill Wilde, but Arch Symbol has developed into a very promising galloper and won five of his six starts including the Betfair Handicap at Sandown on Wednesday.Ridden by heavyweight jockey Jamie Mott, Arch Symbol was sent out at $3.40 in the 1200m race and burst the bubble of another promising galloper, Costa In The Glen ($2.60 fav), who had won three of his four starts before being beaten into third place.Arch Symbol scored by three-quarters of a

You wouldn't buy him if you saw him, says trainer Bill Wilde, but Arch Symbol has developed into a very promising galloper and won five of his six starts including the Betfair Handicap at Sandown on Wednesday.

Ridden by heavyweight jockey Jamie Mott, Arch Symbol was sent out at $3.40 in the 1200m race and burst the bubble of another promising galloper, Costa In The Glen ($2.60 fav), who had won three of his four starts before being beaten into third place.

Arch Symbol scored by three-quarters of a length from Delayedreaction ($10) with Costa In The Glen another 1-3/4 lengths back.

"He's a horse you'd never want to buy. He's got very ugly legs but he's just a racing machine," Wilde, who co-trains the lightly-raced Archway five-year-old with his son Symon, said.

"I don't know how far he'll go distance-wise but he's shown he's got plenty of sprint about him, but I think he'll get 1400 metres to a mile (1600m) and he seems to handle wet tracks."

Wilde bred the gelding out of his Key Dancer mare Centore and races him with his wife Karen, son Symon and daughters Aimee and Rebecca, while stable client Graham Bourke has just bought into the horse.

Arch Symbol is one of four winners to race out of Centore, the others being Petit Cadeau, Coleraine, Mortlake and Dunkeld Cups winner Key Symbol and the former brilliant Belfast Card who won his first two starts before breaking down at his third outing.

"Everything out of the mare has been very slow developing but we're thrilled with the win," Wilde said.

"Belfast Card was probably the best horse I've had. He still holds the course record for 1100 metres at Warrnambool."

Wilde said the ungainly Arch Symbol, who wears bandages on his front legs for protection, gave no indication of his ability until his first trial.

He attracted an offer from Hong Kong earlier in his career but the horse failed to pass the veterinary examination.

"I'm glad we kept him," Wilde said.

Earlier, Returntosender gave trainer Peter Moody and part-owner Judy Wanless a sentimental victory in the Desirable Hcp (1400m).

The Elusive City filly's dam Disco Girl, raced by Mrs Wanless, gave Moody one his early city winners at Sandown in July 2001, soon after he moved down from Queensland to train at Caulfield.

Later that year Amalfi, raced by Ron and Judy Wanless, gave Moody his first Group One success in the Victoria Derby.

"She's a nice filly. I'd like to think she could stay and we might set her for the Queensland Oaks," said Moody who won the Queensland Oaks and Derby last year with Riva San.

Ridden by Luke Nolen, Returntosender ($5) raced in the first three throughout and kicked clear in the straight to win by 1-1/2 lengths from dead-heaters Indirect ($4.60) and Avienus ($26).