"I think they've [the syndicate] had trust in me and they've had trust in Tony Ryder who bred the horse," he said of Ryder, the owner of Clarence St Pak'n' Save in Hamilton.
"With that trust and the time they've given to the filly and the time they've allowed me to give to the filly means we've been able to come out with that sort of result."
Ryder leased the Pakapunch to a syndicate comprising his supermarket employees.
"It's the same syndicate that raced Irish Fling to win The Telegraph three years ago," said Lowry of Ryder who owns Irish Fling and is entrusted to the Hastings co-trainers.
Pakapunch, a 3-year-old filly chestnut, has had three starts, finishing runner-up at a maiden 1200m race in Otaki on January 4.
"She was track wide throughout so it was a very good second," said Lowry of a race which Shaun McKay also rode. "She's topped that form off with training and won easily today."
In her maiden start, Pakapunch finished seventh out of 11, with Napier-based apprentice Miranda Dravitzsky in the saddle, where "it was a good race but she didn't know it a lot of the time".
Mid-last month Lowry and Cullen trained Adventador to another JR & N Berkett Telegraph, the richest Open handicap sprint in New Zealand, at Trentham.
Ryder also owns the 2-year-old gelding who is restricted to sprint distances due to windpipe problems.
Lowry said he and Ryder had had a great association for the past eight years "and long it may continue".
"We've had a lot of luck in the last month."
McKay was making the right noises as an up-and-coming apprentice.
"He's really going places and he's a mature kid who is very polite and does everything right," he said of the Matamata jockey who "has had a very good grounding from his parents".
All Lowry did was impress on McKay the importance of surging out early when the gates flung open after drawing a wider barrier.
"Which he did. She had to work hard work to get to the front so it was better than just winning by a length," he said, adding had the filly got an easier route the gulf at the finish would have been wider.
Pakapunch will now go to the paddock for a week before the co-trainers reassess where she'll go next over 1200m.
"She's still a very immature filly so she's going to need time but we all think we should have one more start with her as part of the preparations."
Pakapunch called Lowry and Cullen's bluff because they didn't think she was suited to a firm track.
"She did and there was a good sole of grass so, hopefully, she's got away without hurting herself," he said of the "good 3" track.
Lowry described the filly "as a hard case who enjoys life but not easy at times".
Earlier in the Rush Munro's 1400m rating 75 handicap race, Hastings trainer Patrick Campbell took stock of Michael McNab taking In Another Life to victory over Latin Rose (Matthew Cameron) 1.8 lengths behind and Oblivion (McKay) a further 4.1 adrift.
"He's always promised win-ability but he's had a few hiccups and a bit of bad luck so it's nice to see him put it together," he said of the 3-year-old Bay gelding that he co-owns with N Stewart and L Walding.
In Another Life won over the same distance on November 8 and was runner-up in Wellington on January 23 over 1200m.
Campbell said they would chew cud over the next few days before deciding what to do with the gelding partial to a firm track.
McNab said 600m out he started to put the pressure on the field.
"At 250 [metres] he's put the second horse away and he's only really done half the pace so he's really done well," he said, believing 1400m is the horse's distance.
Campbell also was happy with Casino Jack (Johnathan Parkes) who finished fifth in the same race and would inject him in the Gisborne/Wairoa circuit in a fortnight.
Jockey Hayden Tinsley rode Lowry and Cullen-trained Irish Star to third place in the Orora Kiwi Packaging 1400m race.
The 4-year-old chestnut gelding, who debuted in fifth place at Whanganui on January 14, finished 3.3 lengths behind winners Elusive Boxers (Parkes) and Bigsie (Cameron) who was 2.8 lengths adrift.
Tinsley won the last race on Jeff Lynds-trained Nessun Dorma.
