Mick Easterby© Photo Healy Racing
Perfect Pasture ran out a ready winner of the Unibet Cammidge Trophy, the first race of the new Flat season in Britain at Doncaster.
Very few horses got into the six-furlong Listed contest, with the Mick Easterby-trained eight-year-old looking likely to land the spoils from some way out.
Smartly out of the stalls, Perfect Pasture (4-1 joint-favourite) shared the early running with Ice Age, before putting the race to bed a furlong out with a neat turn of foot.
Such was his dominance that David Allan was able to ease him down close home, with the official winning margin of a length and a quarter flattering the runner-up Mr Lupton.
Ice Age was two lengths away in third.
Part-owner Steve Hull said: "I only got here as they were going in the stalls, as I'd been playing golf. Mick didn't even try to beat the traffic and said he'd set off after the first!
"He was second in a Listed race here on the last day of last season and now he's won on the first day.
"He's eight now, but obviously still getting better - he's a very strong horse now but he doesn't do a tap at home so we didn't know how fit he was.
"He saved my season last year, he won £50,000 in the last few weeks."
Asked about plans, Hull added: "The Duke of York wouldn't be a bad shout in May, now he's won a Listed. I love winning races at York."
