YANKEE Tango returned to form when he outstayed his rivals to win today's $22,000 Ag Quip Cup Benchmark 58 Handicap (2050m) at Gunnedah Jockey Club's Riverside Racecourse.
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The five-year-old gelding, prepared at Gunnedah by Sally Torrens, had been out of form with successive 10ths at Coonabarabran and Tamworth at his last two starts.
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However he found his feet today with Rachael Murray delivering a perfect ride to run down Bryan Dixon's Outta Space and win by a long neck with Troy O'Neile's Arlo's Way a head away third.
"He hasn't been firing," Sally Torrens said after AgQuip Cup win.
"Went right off the boil. All my horses did."
Sally has six in work at Gunnedah and was delighted to have a change of luck with the change of performance by Yankee Tango, who has now won three of his 27 starts.
"There's another similar race, a benchmark 58 over 2000m for him at the next Tamworth meeting too," she said of his likely next appearance.
Rachael Murray rode Yankee Tango and she said he "tried real hard".
"He kept going and kept whacking away," she said of the son of All American.
Fellow Gunnedah trainer Gavin Groth also impressed during the race, with Bring the Joy finishing in sixth place.
