Having his ninth consecutive start at Menangle, the six-year-old was a $3.60 favourite on Saturday night for the up to 80-ratings race after placings at his past two efforts.

Last early, Formosa took Ultimate Force three wide to race outside leader Watchmedazzle. Ultimate Force took over on the home turn and held off Fear Cruisin by 1.1m in a career-best winning mile of 1:53:7.

"He's been going pretty good and I've just been driving him quiet down there, but he's a horse who can do it tough if he has to," Formosa said. "That was his race to lose so I threw him into the deep end and it paid off.

"He got back a bit further than I thought, the race didn't pan out like I thought, so I had to make him do a bit of work.

"They get better from racing better opposition and he hasn't been having hard runs, so he's been getting better and better and his confidence has gotten up there.

"He can go in that grade race again next week, so we'll keep going."