When you train a lot of Derby winners you learn a few tricks along the way.
One of those tricks was on display on Tuesday when Kiwi three-year-old Mr Maestro rounded out his preparation for tomorrow's A$2 million Victoria Derby at Flemington.
Mr Maestro is trained by Andrew Forsman, the Cambridge horseman who turned 40 on Wednesday and is in his first season of training under his own name after a decade alongside Murray Baker.
Baker was the grand master of taking raw-boned New Zealand three-year-olds to Australia and winning derbies, so Forsman learned from the best and he has applied those lessons to Mr Maestro's prep for tomorrow's showdown.
Mr Maestro, who has won his last three starts, galloped with high-class stablemate She's Licketysplit on Tuesday, the latter preparing for the A$1m Empire Rose at Flemington tomorrow.