Trainer Robert Dunn's wife Rose is a sister of the breeder and other co owner Peter Bagrie.

The co owners are children of the late Bill Bagrie, an institution in harness racing through the 1960s by way of the great U Scott pacer Oribiter.

The Bagries, incidentally, started off harness racing in their home province of Southland before shifting to Canterbury.

Oribiter was a son of Margaret Hall, who belonged to the Estela Amos family (imp) family, a force in the land for many years.

Margaret Hall was by the mighty sire Dillon Hall and her branch also produced Pacific Fleet, Morpheus ($183,000), the good mare Kinsella (fourth dam of Pacific Fleet) and star Australian pacer Garry Rowan (an Interdominion Heat winner).

Peter Bagrie also enjoyed much success with the Invercargill and Auckland Cup winner Burlington Bertie who belonged to Andata's branch of the Wee D family.

Burlington Bertie credited Colin De Filippi with one of his major driving wins in the Auckland Cup after surviving a life threatening brain haemorrhage.

For good measure the Dunn and Bagrie families had cause to be satisfied with their horse being driven to victory last night by Tim Williams, a distinctly promising junior licence holder in trainer Dunn's in-form stable.

Don WRIGHT