Trainer James Peters’ decision to run Rubik Kid on the quick back-up on March 23 proved to be right on the money.

First off, the Rubick three-year-old had pulled up in good order after his close second to Sweet N Sour on March 17.

Otherwise, the question to run or not to run within six days would not even arise.

Once that box was ticked, the Englishman said he also had to check out the field in the $20,000 Open Maiden race (1,200m) before locking anything in.

“Of course, he had to pull up well after his race last week, and he was fine,” he said.

“But I also wanted to look at the field first before confirming it. I saw it wasn’t a super-strong field, it was a winnable race, so I decided to run him.”

After his stablemate Flying Success was scratched, the small eight-horse field was left with only Big Max, Bureaucrat and Lim’s Everest to have finished in the money.

Logic did prevail with $8 favourite Rubik (Krisna Thangamani) leading that trio home in that order, though long shot Kota Ranger (Faiz Khair) nudged Lim’s Everest (Marc Lerner) out of the quartet by a head.

The winning time was 1min 11.27sec for the 1,200m on the long course.