Hey Wendy and Amy, go easy of Fergs as he’s doing a sterling job taming Lincoln Linda

“I’m good with temperamental females, I’ve had a lot of practice.”

Driver Peter Ferguson’s description of Thursday night winner Lincoln Linda is sure to get him into trouble with his whānau but it sums up his success with Lincoln Farms’ runaway filly.

The all-the-way Cambridge performance took Fergie’s record on the Bettor’s Delight three-year-old to two wins and two seconds from seven drives, clearly the best of the hapless souls who have sat behind her on racenight.

“The boys told me that even when she was broken in she was a bit like a runaway train. But I don’t mind her - it’s just in her nature, she’s a free spirit.”

Ray Green’s clue to a $10.60 dividend.Co-trainer Ray Green, who once described Lincoln Linda as “bordering on the fringe of lunacy” was happy to see that the filly didn’t “lose the plot” again in her preliminary on Thursday night.

In her previous start, when she had a shorter cart, Fergie said as soon as she started touching the wheels, she got really wound up. “After that we might as well have come off the track.”

But this time Fergie said he was able to keep Linda happy and come start time she exploded out of the gate to hit the lead after 200 metres.

“I was actually hanging on to her. If you let her go, she’d be way quicker than that but then you’ve got to get her back.

“Last night she was a little keen to start with but I took a slightly different tack and made her go really slow and she found a good kick.

“I thought the other horse would get me but at the line she held it quite easily.”

That other horse, the favourite Twist And Tango, came up a neck short after driver Zachary Butcher came out of the one-one to put a little more pressure on Lincoln Linda 1200 metres from home.

But it was not enough and at the line Lincoln Linda clocked a respectable 2:42.79 for the 2200 metres, with closing sectionals of 58 and 28.6.

“She is very temperamental and I don’t think you could change her racing style now - you couldn’t be pulling her off the gate and sit four fence - but if you can keep her under a manageable rein, she’d be competitive anywhere.

“She’d suit Queensland where they have sprint racing all the time. And she is a bit happier left-handed.

“There are a few more wins in her but if it gets to the stage where she’s not able to get things her own way, that’s when she’ll be found out.”

Fergie agrees with Green, however, that there’s a chance that with a bit more racing, Linda might become more even tractable in the running.

Comparatively lightly tried, with only 17 starts, Linda has now banked $23,808 for her owners, John and Lynne Street, their business manager Ian Middleton, Theresa Wyatt, Daphne Jones, Kim Miller and the Excell Syndicate.