The mother and son training partnership of Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones celebrated a hometown victory with Fill The Page in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday.It was Joseph's first Canberra Cup success after years of trying."It's wonderful," Joseph, who has trained in Canberra for 18 years, said as she celebrated in the mounting yard."Paul and I are in partnership now. I've run third in the Cup a couple of times so it's great to finally win one today."I was sitting up in the grandstand

The mother and son training partnership of Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones celebrated a hometown victory with Fill The Page in the $200,000 Listed Canberra Cup on Sunday.

It was Joseph's first Canberra Cup success after years of trying.

"It's wonderful," Joseph, who has trained in Canberra for 18 years, said as she celebrated in the mounting yard.

"Paul and I are in partnership now. I've run third in the Cup a couple of times so it's great to finally win one today.

"I was sitting up in the grandstand before the race thinking she was a four-year-old mare on the way up against some of these older horses, and I've seen it before in races like the Caulfield Cup that the mares that are on the up are the ones to beat.

"This is fantastic."

Fill The Page ($21) was ridden by Tommy Berry who went forward and was able to lead all the way on a day that favoured the on-pace runners.

The Bede Murray-trained World Wide ($9) levelled up on Fill The Page's inside in the straight but the mare wouldn't be denied and fought on to win by a long head with Coliseo ($9) a long neck away third.

"You wouldn't believe it, years ago Bede and I fought out the finish of the Wagga Cup when I won with Sporting. We went head and head that day and poor old Bede has finished second again," Joseph said.

"But he's had plenty of wins too."

This year's Canberra Cup (2000m) was run on Black Opal Stakes day for the first time after the Canberra Racing Club made the decision to switch the Cup from the spring to have four feature races on the one program.

Jones said the Canberra Cup had been in their sights since the mare won at Canterbury over 1900m in December.

"She had to go to the 1800 metres on the way here second-up and she over-raced but that was our plan that she would settle better in this race," Jones said.

"All the planning has come to fruition.

"We were a bit worried about her getting a strong 2000 metres but she got headed and fought back to win, so that was probably the most pleasing part."

Fill The Page's next assignment will be the Epona Stakes (1900m) in Sydney.