WHEN John Boserio first laid eyes on a colt 12 months ago he liked the look of, he hadn't trained a horse for some seven years, let alone thought about entering one in the Gold Crown Carnival.
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Now Boserio not only trains that Mr Feelgood x Ashuras Gold colt - whom he named Mistery Road - but he will head into Saturday night's Bathurst Gold Crown heats with a three wins from three starts record.
He won on debut at Bathurst, saluted in the first race to be staged at the new Riverina Paceway and last Friday night got up in his final stride to win the Group 2 Rod Fitzpatrick Tatlow Stakes.
The Bathurst trainer knows adding to that record and earning a place in the $100,000 Group 1 Final will require a big effort, but the enjoyment he has gotten from the colt thus far is still enough to satisfy him.
"It's all a bonus from now, whatever we get with him," Boserio said.
"We haven't seen all the horses yet, they come out of the woodwork for a race like this, they just turn up out of the blue. There's always some really good ones come, so it's hard to know how he'll go."
Anthony Frisby, who Boserio says "has been driving unbelievable" will be in the gig on Saturday night behind Boserio's colt.
He knows the skills of the reinsman - who picked up his first Group 1 win earlier this season - will be important, while he also said Ronnie Jones and Steph Burley have been a big help in the preparation.
Though not wanting to put the mockers on his colt, Boserio knows he has "turned out alright".
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"Mates of mine, Wayne and Anne Lamb, they own the Golden Gait Stud and I was out there this time last year helping him with the yearlings. I saw him in the paddock and I liked him and I ended up buying him," he said.
"When this horse came up I had no intentions of training him, but when I bought him Craig [Lusby] conned me in to breaking him in, so I broke him in and he's turned out alright.
"The name, well I like calling horses rivers, creeks and roads and my mate Craig who's in it, he's a real mystery. No, the main reason was there was a mini-series on TV last year called Mystery Road and it was a real good show.
"We had to spell it different because there was a Mystery Road about 30 years ago ... that doesn't matter, I can't spell anyway," he laughed.
Though Boserio has only recently resumed training, he has long been involved in the industry. He's owned horses "for over 50 years".
"I've had two or three in the finals before years ago and I've probably won three or four consolations ... fingers crossed he does alright too," he said.
