The seemingly ageless Takeover Target produced one of the most dominant displays of his career to win the TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick with regular partner Jay Ford watching from the sidelines.Heavyweight jockey Nash Rawiller got the call-up to ride Takeover Target on Wednesday with trainer Joe Janiak concerned about the nine-year-old carrying too much lead in his saddlebags on a rain-affected track after an interrupted preparation.None of that seemed to worry the horse who wrested the lead from

The seemingly ageless Takeover Target produced one of the most dominant displays of his career to win the TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick with regular partner Jay Ford watching from the sidelines.

Heavyweight jockey Nash Rawiller got the call-up to ride Takeover Target on Wednesday with trainer Joe Janiak concerned about the nine-year-old carrying too much lead in his saddlebags on a rain-affected track after an interrupted preparation.

None of that seemed to worry the horse who wrested the lead from Northern Meteor early in the race and although the three-year-old kept trying, he was no match in the final 200 metres.

Takeover Target stretched out to win by 2-3/4 lengths with last year's winner Apache Cat another three lengths third.

The 1200m sprint was Takeover Target's seventh Group One victory and the 20th of his 38-start career which Janiak said would continue in Adelaide, Singapore and Royal Ascot.

"To be able to get away from class horses like that, it's something special," Janiak said.

"He is such an honest horse and he is a happy horse."

Ford, who has ridden the champion 36 times, was obviously a bit down but said he was happy for the horse.

"I watched it, I'm sweet," he said.

"He brained them."

For Rawiller it was his second Group One win within an hour after he took out the Sires' Produce on Manhattan Rain.

He too has had his fair share of disappointments, most notably being taken off Haradasun in the 2006 Doncaster, and said it was a huge thrill to ride Takeover Target.

"I was just a passenger," Rawiller said.

"It's all about the horse, it was a privilege to ride him and just great to be here.

"I was thrilled with the crowd response, he is just a great horse."

Plans for Northern Meteor are still open with the colt due to stand at Widden Stud in the spring.

"We have left the door open on the All-Aged next week," Gooree manager Andrew Baddock said.

"But if he ran in that, then that would be it.

"That was as good as a win. He has been beaten by the best sprinter we have ever seen."

Ford is expected to be back aboard Takeover Target for the Goodwood Handicap at Morphettville on May 2 and the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore later in the month.