"It's a good crowd but I don't really pay attention to it when I am going out of the mounting yard,” she says.

“It is great to have them here though.”

Like most of her rivals, Panya is too focused on the task at hand to worry too much about the punters in the front row.

And when you are partnering a horse which you think is a great winning chance, that focus can be all the more important.

That was the case for Panya as she linked up with Gary Portelli trained Bella Vino ($3.70) to win the Go Hire Class Two (1000m).

The apprentice produced a perfect front-running ride to help the three-year-old to a gutsy ¾-length victory over Gwenda Markwell’s Louie Sea Kay ($4.20), with Echappe ($14) in third.

"I was very confident actually,” Panya said.

"With the horses she has been racing against, she is quite a classy filly.

"When I first won on her she likes to look around so that wasn't her strongest performance.

"The start before that she was looking around as well so she should have won those two starts but now she is getting confident

“She knows what it is all about and she knows how to hit the line."

Bella Vino is racing in career best form and has won three of her past four career starts.  All have come over the 1000m trip, but Panya believes the filly has the potential to step up in distance range as she continues maturing. 

"If she can come back and settle a bit I suppose she will go over 1200m and be a bit more versatile but she would have to settle,” she said. 

"She is a bit hard going at the moment but she will learn and maybe settle when she gets older with more racing and maturity."

Sydney trainers Gerald Ryan, Clarry Conners as well as Peter and Paul Snowden all also had victories on a busy Cup day at the Illawarra Turf Club.