THE opening event on the card and you are sent out on the red-hot favourite in a large field of maidens – no pressure there.

So Swan Hill jockey Harry Coffey decided the smartest thing he could do was take his mount, Romani Ite Domum, to the front and make the rest play catch-up.

And it worked.

Even though roughie The Bantam threw everything at him but the kitchen sink in the final 200m, Coff...