Five-year-old mare Mother’s Angel ($17.40) scored the biggest win of her career so far when she claimed victory in the Listed quality Country Series Final (1,609 metres).

Mothers Angel, driven by Mat Rue, headed a 1-2 result for Hewitt as stablemate Lethal Promise ($9.50) ran home 2.3m behind for second.

Race favourite Vega Star ($1.50) was a neck away in third.

Hewitt’s other contender, Allnight Mlady, came very close to making it a stable top-three lockout when she came home in fourth.

Punters may have been surprised but the man in the driver’s seat wasn’t.

“It comes as no surprise to us that she won,” Rue said.

“We were reasonably confident going into the race with her. In her heat win at Young she had run very well.

“She had another run inbetween that win and Menangle at Penrith and she had no luck there. Not too many things went right for her in that race so when we got the good draw for Saturday night I knew she was in with a good chance.”

Mothers Angel found the pegs comfortably from gate five at the green light.

After a battle for the spots behind Hewitt’s runner it was Vega Star who managed to get to the death seat.

Surprisingly, Vega Star wasn’t quite able to match it with Mother’s Angel over the final 200m but out wide Hewitt was on a mission from the driver’s seat to deliver Lethal Promise the victory.

Lethal Promise finished with excellent speed but didn’t have the necessary amount of track left to beat his stablemate.

Rue was setting a quick tempo out in front but always felt confident that his runner would have enough energy left to be a force at the finish.

“I was really happy with the run. I managed to find the front quite easily,” he said.

"The first quarter was a 28.2 … and then in the second quarter it was a 28 flat so I was a little worried with how quick it was but I still felt like I had plenty of horse with me.”

Allnight Mlady was very unlucky not to make it a 1-2-3 finish for Hewitt when she was blocked for a move down the inside but Rue’s chance.

The next best-placed chance for Bathurst trainers was a sixth for Steve Turnbull’s Casino Tommy, who didn’t have any energy to challenge after spending the majority of the race stuck three wide.

The win came in a new career-best mile rate of 1:54.1 for the Art Major x Rossangel Gold mare and the $12,000 winning cheque more than doubled her career earnings.