The decision by Warrnambool trainer Geoff Withers to back-up in-form galloper Crafty Boss over the border paid dividends in the last Friday’s Mount Gambier Gold Cup.
 Coming off a Caulfield placing in the $250,000 Country Mile a week earlier, Crafty Boss jumped the border and thrived on a solid race tempo before proving too smart for rivals in the $72,500 feature.
 “It’s amazing,’’ Withers said of the Cup win.
 “When the pace was on, I had a little chuckle, it worked out beautifully.
 “He’s the best one I have had.”
 Withers was quick to pay credit to fellow Warrnambool horseman Pat Ryan who said the Mount Gambier feature would be ideal following his city placing a week earlier.
 “Pat came down with me (to Melbourne)...