Tony Herlihy is hoping to put two more pickets on the fence.
One Over Da Moon has now strung together seven wins on the trot after his upset win in Monday's Group III Trotters Flying Mile at Ashburton Raceway.
Punters showed little interest in the son of Majestic Son who drifted out to $9.10 on the tote.
Formally trained by Paul Nairn, One Over Da Moon has been in blistering form at Alexandra Park but he has not been beating quality fields.
But what he has been doing is winning from 40 and 50 metre handicaps and because of that, Herlihy fells he was possibly a little underrated heading into Ashburton.
"He's been in great form but this was a step up," Herlihy said after his perfect front running drive.
The Papakura trainer plans to back One Over Da Moon up in both the Group I NZ free-for-all over 1950m on cup day and the Group I Dominion Handicap three days later.
"Sometimes he can be a bit funny when he's on the fresh side so I think we will head to both days."
Herlihy essentially stole the race after he pinched a break turning for home and One Over Da Moon just kept on giving.
Stent, the $1.50 favourite, charged forward from three back in the running line but could not make up enough ground.
Such was Stent's dominance with punters, just after midday the TAB's Thad Taylor told Radio Trackside there was $20,000 in the win pot with $19,500 of it on Stent.
Colin DeFilippi was disappointed not to win the race after finishing half a length behind in second but there is no sign of panic ahead of cup week.
DeFilippi said the race panned out in a funny way and admitted he was "out foxed" by Herlihy's cunning drive as he expected the main dangers to be coming from behind him.
Stent was coming to the end of his run in the final 100m but DeFilippi is still predicting him to be right on song for the cup week double.
Habibti is seemingly back to full health after storming home down the inside to finish three quarters of a length behind Stent in third.
Australian trotter Vincennes in the care of Craig and Aimee Edmonds, was satisfactory in fourth and the Edmonds' other runner Kincaslough looked more like her best in sixth.
Monbet put in a massive run from the back to finish fifth in his first go at open class company and with a better draw could have easily been a winning chance.
Mat Kermeen
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