One Direction impresses trainer Pfieffer

Trainer David Pfieffer wasn't willing to rule out One Direction emulating the exploits of stablemate Cradle Me after the five-year-old broke the multiple city winner's class record at Kembla Grange on Saturday.

In the run of the day, the son of Bite The Bullet trounced his rivals by 3½ lengths over 1000m, to take his impressive record to four wins and a second from six starts.

Pfieffer will guide the rising sprinter through the grades with a run in an 1100m event at Canterbury on October 1 and says it would be pleasing to see the gelding match the feats of his stablemate.

Cradle Me scored a hat-trick of wins and never finished out of the placings in five runs in town last preparation.

"I hope he can [match Cradle Me]. He is definitely doing himself proud," Pfieffer said. "If he keeps performing how he is and keeps improving ... you can't put anything past horses who are going through their classes easily. But you just have to take it one step at a time."

Saturday's win at Kembla Grange was One Direction's third in a row after back-to-back front-running victories at Gosford and Hawkesbury.

Pfieffer was impressed with the manner of the romp. "For these horses that jump and run, they are always at their best on tight-turning tracks ... but to see him do it on a big track with a big, long straight which gives a lot of horses a chance, [was good]," he said. "He still managed to run them into the ground and take most horses out of their comfort zone. And he ran a solid time to back it up."

Two races later the Pfieffer-trained Brilliant Meteor made it three wins from four starts, in a Class 2 handicap (2000m).