Trainer Mathew Ellerton described Brunello as a tough, rugged, no-frills type of horse after the Testa Rossa gelding landed his first metropolitan win at Caulfield on Saturday.Brunello ($11), ridden by Darren Gauci, beat a handy field of three-year-olds in the Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Hcp (1400m).He scored by 1-1/4 lengths from Burrowye ($14) who circled the field from second last of the 12 runners.The Moon Day, backed from $101 in to $61, was a head away third."He ran fifth to Exceedingly Good i

Trainer Mathew Ellerton described Brunello as a tough, rugged, no-frills type of horse after the Testa Rossa gelding landed his first metropolitan win at Caulfield on Saturday.

Brunello ($11), ridden by Darren Gauci, beat a handy field of three-year-olds in the Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Hcp (1400m).

He scored by 1-1/4 lengths from Burrowye ($14) who circled the field from second last of the 12 runners.

The Moon Day, backed from $101 in to $61, was a head away third.

"He ran fifth to Exceedingly Good in the first two-year-old race last season (the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes at Flemington) and his form has been good all along apart from his last-start failure on a heavy track at Ballarat," Ellerton said.

Brunello was sent out $3 favourite in a Rating 0-68 Hcp (1200m) on Ballarat Cup day but was beaten 15 lengths when last of seven runners.

"He's a tough, rugged, no-frills horse who goes forward and makes his own luck," Ellerton said.

"I thought he (Gauci) might have popped him out a bit early because he hardly had a run at Ballarat and had to step up to 1400 metres."

Brunello's grand-dam Polar Rose, by Avatar, is the mother of 1996 Caulfield Cup winner Arctic Scent who was also raced by Contract Racing Pty Ltd Syndicate.

Glen Boss' luck ran out when his mount Keano ($2.50 fav), prepared by Danny O'Brien, ran sixth after being locked away in running back in the field and getting clear only when the race was all over.

Boss rode a treble at Moonee Valley on Friday night and won the opening event at Caulfield on the John Sadler-trained Instructor.

Earlier, Dale Sutton landed his first Saturday Melbourne metropolitan winner in 18 months of training at Wadham Park's Victorian base at Tylden when La Rocket scored in the Aus Corp Signage Cup (1600m).

The four-year-old is nicely bred being by Rock Of Gibraltar out of the 2001 Group One Mackinnon Stakes winner La Bella Dama and is a half-brother to Macau Causeway, a Group Three placegetter and winner of six races and runner-up in the Kyneton Cup and Ararat Cups.

"He's a really tough horse," Sutton said of the $300,000 yearling purchase.

"He's still an entire, but he desperately needs to be gelded. He's a real lad."

Ridden by Stephen Baster, La Rocket ($5.50) raced off the leader Perusen and kept finding in the straight to hold off King's Farewell by a head with Perusen a head away third.

"I could have cried last week when he missed the start by two lengths," Baster said of the horse who was an unlucky third to Anyways over 1500m at Moonee Valley last Saturday.

Sutton said he had 30 horses in work at Tylden, which can take 70 horses, but he said a lot of young horses were being readied at Wadham Park's Seymour property.

"We've got 30 in pre-training," he said.

La Rocket was Sutton's third city winner in Victoria having won a midweek event with Windshear at Geelong and a Moonee Valley night race with Superzeel.