All driver Ben Hope wanted out of the draw for today's $300,000 Dominion was a front-line draw for exceptional trotter Muscle Mountain.
But when he got just that, it came with an extra little sting.
Muscle Mountain takes on Sundees Son in the 3200m feature and the pair have been so dominant in the open-class trotting ranks the past two years it is hard to envisage neither of them winning.
But Hope, who drives Muscle Mountain for parents Greg and Nina, says barrier one is not what he wanted to read when the fields came out. "All I wanted was a front-line draw rather than the second line like last year," says Hope.
"But I hadn't even thought about barrier one and that is not ideal.