Ballarat trainer Mark Lewis is pursuing his Caulfield and Melbourne Cups dream with promising five-year-old By The Way who won well second-up at Sandown the day after Cups entries closed.Lewis thought By The Way ($5) might have been "a run short" for Wednesday's TR Trevaskis Hcp (1200m) but was proved wrong.Ridden by in-form apprentice Jarrod Fry, the gelding settled last and swept home in the heavy 10 conditions to score by two lengths from Side Splitter ($8) with Adaptor ($3.50 fav) 1-3/4 leng

Ballarat trainer Mark Lewis is pursuing his Caulfield and Melbourne Cups dream with promising five-year-old By The Way who won well second-up at Sandown the day after Cups entries closed.

Lewis thought By The Way ($5) might have been "a run short" for Wednesday's TR Trevaskis Hcp (1200m) but was proved wrong.

Ridden by in-form apprentice Jarrod Fry, the gelding settled last and swept home in the heavy 10 conditions to score by two lengths from Side Splitter ($8) with Adaptor ($3.50 fav) 1-3/4 lengths away third.

"We've got a long way to go. We've nominated him for both Cups but whether we get there is another thing," Lewis said.

"We just have to take these little steps with him and get his rating up and get him into better races.

"He had chips in both knees at the end of his last preparation and we had to get them operated on and just give him plenty of time.

"With the water-walker we've got at our property at Ballarat it has really started to help and show dividends with our horses."

By The Way, who has won five of his 12 starts including two at Sandown, is yet to race beyond 1400m and yet to win beyond 1300m.

"He has come back a different horse this campaign," Lewis said.

"Just whether last preparation he was fired up with the chips in his knees and the pain he was feeling, but I think he'll definitely run a mile (1600m) and 2000 metres but what do you do, you might as well put them in (the Cups) and see what happens.

"He's by Street Cry (the sire of last year's Melbourne Cup winner Shocking) and they do stay.

"We'll go to a Saturday 1400-metre race in three and a half weeks (the Gay Icarus Handicap at Caulfield on August 28) and see we where we get to."

Meanwhile, leading trainer Peter Moody has a high opinion of nicely-bred three-year-old Achievements ($1.75 fav) who led all the way under Damien Oliver to break through for his first win at his third start in the Attley Hcp (1200m).

The Redoute's Choice colt, out of Listed Gosford Belle Of The Turf Stakes winner Rubitoff, is from the same family as Group One VRC Newmarket Handicap winner Rubitano.

Achievements is nominated for the $1 million Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on October 9 but Moody said the Group One Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill on August 28 might come up a bit too quickly for him.

"He's a damn good colt, but he has to learn his trade. He was all at sea there," he said.

"We had hoped to find a leader because I did say to Damien pre-race if he's out in front he might get very lost because he hasn't quite got his mind around it (racing) but he still got the job done.

"I was saying to Damien pre-race that he's shown as much as any of our three-year-olds at home but he hasn't been able to take it to the races yet.

"But maturity and education are wonderful things and slowly he's getting there."

Oliver said Achievements won despite not handling the heavy ground at all.

"He's still progressing and he'll get better," he said.