DECLAN Bates landed the $63,000 Terang Cup on Sunday in Western Victoria with Too Close The Sun, trained by Lindsay Smith, the West Australian trainer who now manages a base out of Warrnambool.

Eased down on the line, the Carlton House gelding won by four lengths setting him up as an early favourite for the $250,000 Warrnambool Cup, the feature flat race of the traditional three-day jumps festival which has now been truncated to two days as a result of Covid-19.