By MIKE DILLON
Andrew Scott didn't mind telling anyone he saw he thought O'Malleys Boy could win last night's $60,000 Concorde at Avondale.
Few, it appears, took any notice.
O'Malleys Boy won the Concorde like Phar Lap, paying $52, and the Matamata trainer and his owners seemed to be the only ones laughing.
"Yes, I was confident," said Scott after O'Malleys Boy came from the dead to streak past nearly the entire field and win easily.
"Everyone forgets he finished an unlucky fifth in the Railway in January carrying topweight. He was well down on the weight he carried that day."
Winning rider Michael Coleman admitted that with 350m to run he gave himself no chance at all of even figuring in the finish.
"But they had gone really hard in front and that suited him. He picked up the bit at the 300m and he finished the race off beautifully.
"Normally he doesn't sustain his sprint for that long. It was a really big win.
"He's a real character of a horse."
The Moroney/Scott stable won the Concorde last year with Cannsea, who went on to take the McDonogh Railway at Ellerslie a few weeks later.
Scott said O'Malleys Boy would attempt to provide the stable with a unique double double.
Vain Ana made ground quickly late down the outside to take second ahead of a game Furnish, with Straight From Above fourth in front of the favourite, Travellin' Man.
Rider Leith Innes said the run of Travellin' Man was best forgotten. Little went right for him.
"I had to dig him up early from the draw and across the top I was getting so much pressure from the horses outside me, my bloke had his feet off the ground.
"He's a lot better than that run showed."
Second favourite Durzetta was a fraction wide for most of the running and could not make ground on the leaders in the closing stages.
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