Promising stayer Olympic Win has ensured a return to city racing after running a stunning sectional to beat a small field at Geelong.Trained by Leon Corstens, the four-year-old appreciated the drop in class in Saturday's Merbo P/L Handicap (2200m) and ran 33.84s on slow ground for his last 600 metres as he streaked away to win by six lengths from Blood Diamond and Crabs in the five-horse field."Once he puts it all together he might be a pretty good horses," Troy Corstens said."He's had a million
Promising stayer Olympic Win has ensured a return to city racing after running a stunning sectional to beat a small field at Geelong.
Trained by Leon Corstens, the four-year-old appreciated the drop in class in Saturday's Merbo P/L Handicap (2200m) and ran 33.84s on slow ground for his last 600 metres as he streaked away to win by six lengths from Blood Diamond and Crabs in the five-horse field.
"Once he puts it all together he might be a pretty good horses," Troy Corstens said.
"He's had a million gear changes trying to get him to race with his head down and even today he was racing with his mouth open.
"It's a maturity thing and a lot of people aren't patient with these sorts of horses anymore but we are fortunate the owner lets us do what we want with him.
"He will go back to town now and we will probably look for a 2500-metre race for him."
Ridden by Brent Stanley, Olympic Win was entitled to finish off the way he did with Saturday's race run at a dawdling pace and his winning time of 2:22.89 was more than nine seconds outside the course record.
The son of Montjeu has now won three of his 10 starts with past victories at Swan Hill and Kyneton.
He was unplaced at his two city runs including last start when sixth to Lord Pyrus at Sandown over 1800 metres on December 23 and was on trial at 2200 metres on Saturday.
Punters were on board for Olympic Win's success at $2.60 and loaded up again in the following race when Corstens and Stanley landed a double with Epic Journey at $2.15.
Like Olympic Win, Epic Journey was looking for a confidence-boosting win and got it by beating Napash by a neck after her last-start fourth to Cape South when favourite at Sandown on December 23.
"She didn't win by much but her class got her through," Corstens said.
Stanley said the win was better than it looked as he was shunted wide on the home turn after getting stuck behind two tiring horses.
"A couple in front of me were going nowhere approaching the 700 metres and by the time I got around them the rest started pushing out and I straightened up five or six wide," he said.
Corstens said Epic Journey had good ability but her racing style back in the field was always going to be against her.
"You can't change her racing pattern," Corstens said.
"She is always going to need luck and is always going to need the pace on and that's why we dropped her back in this grade to give her the confidence boost."