Trained by Bryan Dixon at Gilgandra and ridden by four kilogram claiming apprentice Elissa Meredith, Bizzarro arrived in the shadows of the winning post to defeat Byzantium (A Cavallo $9.50) with another outsider, Alaskan Aura (K Dunbar, $9.50) in third place.

Race favourite Miss Devinci (Q Yong, $2.60) was slow away and wound up in fourth with Scalded (S Miller, $8) running home hard from the tail of the field, finishing on the heels of the placegetters.

From barrier five young Meredith had Bizarro perfectly placed on the rails behind Byzantium before being checked as the field approached the home turn.

Checking off the heels of the leader in the straight Bizarro finished strongly for the win and continue a trend of close finishes at the meeting, including a dead-heat in the Benchmark 74 Ken Andrews Memorial over 1375 metres.

Following the win Dixon, who took over training of the galloper said: "I got him off Kody (Nestor) in fine condition, I give him one bit of fast work and he pulled up with a bit of a problem so I put a tongue tie on him and it seems to have worked".

Meredith said her four kilogram claim was probably the difference between winning and losing.

"When he got clear he let down nice," Meredith who made it win number five in her short career said after the win.