Race experience came to the fore in Friday night's two-year-old race when Golden Prince blitzes his rivals in the $65,000 Open Class race over 1200m.

After the heart-breaking experience of seeing his pair of Dark Matter and Awakened fill the two minor placings behind Mr Big in last year's inaugural Aushorse Golden Horseshoe, trainer Steven Burridge turned agony to ecstasy 12 months later when he landed the first prize at this year's renewal with Pitstop.