John Butler's principle of surrounding himself with the right people looks to be helping his training career to flourish and the bookmakers will be treating the Irishman with more respect after the Kempton success of Silver Linnet.
The 39-year-old Butler was a long-serving employee of Aidan O'Brien and rents boxes in Newmarket from Barney Curley, the highly astute trainer whose gambling exploits are the stuff of legend.
Last month Butler sent out a jumping winner from his first runner and it took him only four tries to get off the mark on the Flat in the Free Entry For Betdaq Members Handicap.
Silver Linnet, who moved from the Quinlan brothers and was back from a 330-day lay-off, was tried in a visor instead of her usual headgear and tore her rivals apart from the front.
And it looks as if the stable are not adverse to a tilt at the ring either, as she was sent off a well-backed 15-8 favourite.
"I got my licence in January and I've only got eight in at the moment," said Butler.
"It's onwards and upwards I hope. She has got lots of pace and we'll probably keep her going and run at Wolverhampton on Monday."
Explaining his background, he added: "I spent 12 years with Aidan O'Brien, both as an assistant and I also rode winners for him. He's definitely the best, and I wouldn't be taking any horses from him!
"After that I managed a stud but I thought I'd try training, get a few horses and make a go of it."
Jockey Adam Kirby, who had given Silver Linnet a clever ride, was given a two-day ban (February 22-23) for hitting her in the incorrect place.
Jamie Spencer had worn black breeches when closing for second on Good Timin' but switching to the white ones boosted his fortunes in the Betdaq Mobile Apps Classified Claiming Stakes.
Spencer, retained jockey for Dr Marwan Koukash, helped the David Simcock-trained Satwa Laird win a similar event at Lingfield last month and pulled off another as the 11-10 favourite in a four-runner race.
"The black ones weigh a pound and a half, so I had to change," said Spencer, who heads to Dubai for a week with his children.
Sylas Ings (15-2) barely finished in front of a rival last year but appears to have turned over a new leaf in 2012 as he made his first appearance a winning one in the Back Or Lay At betdaq.com Handicap.
"He had dropped from a mark of 78 to 50 and that was his doing not mine," said trainer Pat Phelan.
"Have we done anything differently? If I could bottle it, I'd not tell anyone, but I don't know.
"We were planning to run over hurdles but couldn't because of the ground and he may go to Ascot sales at the end of the month."
Gin Twist (4-1) fared much better than on her last visit to Kempton when squeezing through close home in the Betdaq Multiples Handicap.
"She's all right on her day, but things have to go right for her," said jockey Richard Kingscote.
The highest-quality race was the racingplus.co.uk Handicap for three-year-olds, where in-form pair Discoverer (3-1) and 7-4 favourite Pale Orchid were locked together for the final furlong.
John Gosden's lightly-raced Discoverer was headed but rallied bravely to short-head his rival.
"He's still green and it was very like his last run when he looked like he'd win easily, hit a flat spot and ran on again," said Gosden's representative Les Reynolds.
James Sullivan's long journey to the south for one ride was repaid by 7-4 favourite Spartilla in the skysports.com Handicap.
