Frontrunner Mr Clangtastic continued his charge towards next month's Metropolitan Handicap with a thrilling victory in the Listed Wyong Cup in front of a massive crowd on the NSW Central Coast.Nearly 8,500 racegoers turned up to Friday's Cup meeting which has been plagued by bad luck and bad weather for the last three years.Mr Clangtastic set the speed and kicked strongly on straightening before the Gwenda Markwell-trained Lodge The Deeds came with a huge run down the outside.The leader hung on

Frontrunner Mr Clangtastic continued his charge towards next month's Metropolitan Handicap with a thrilling victory in the Listed Wyong Cup in front of a massive crowd on the NSW Central Coast.

Nearly 8,500 racegoers turned up to Friday's Cup meeting which has been plagued by bad luck and bad weather for the last three years.

Mr Clangtastic set the speed and kicked strongly on straightening before the Gwenda Markwell-trained Lodge The Deeds came with a huge run down the outside.

The leader hung on to win by just a nose from Lodge The Deeds with the favourite Enzedex Eagle three-quarters of a length away third.

It was Conners' second Wyong Cup win after Aphasia scored in 1997.

Conners nearly sent Mr Clangtastic to Melbourne for a start at Flemington on Saturday to chase wet tracks but some showers on the Central Coast on Thursday afternoon and evening resulted in a dead track.

"That was the key, at Flemington they've been watering the track it's that dry down there but we had the showers here yesterday and it just took the edge off the track and that's what we were looking for," Conners said.

"We weren't looking for a heavy track we were just looking for some give in the track.

"He'll go to the Newcastle Cup and then the Metrop."

Mr Clangtastic was having his first run since his 7-1/4-length romp at Randwick on July 25 and Conners said the horse was vulnerable.

"He hadn't run in so long and he'll improve out of sight and fingers crossed everything stays good, that was a great effort," Conners said.

The Newcastle Cup (2300m) is on September 17 while the Metropolitan (2400m) is at Randwick on October 3.

As happy as winning jockey Craig Agnew and Conners were, you could argue that Wyong Race Club boss Tony Drew was the happiest man at the track.

The club took a financial pounding last year when torrential rain forced the meeting to be moved from a Friday to a Monday forcing them to refund thousands of pre-sold tickets.

A year earlier the Cup wasn't run because of the equine influenza outbreak while in 2006 it was washed out.

"This has been absolutely sensational, we've been waiting three years for this and everything we wanted to happen has happened and it's been a marvellous day and the sun's been out all day too," Drew said.

While Conners was glad it rained on Thursday, Drew had a very nervous 24 hours and even went to the club chaplain in a last-ditch attempt to alter the weather.

"I asked him if he had any pull upstairs to turn the rain off and he said he'd do his best," Drew said.

"My team here is sensational, they are the greatest team, they work so hard and are so dedicated and it's all for them, they deserve this."