A narrow victory by Boys On Tour at Doomben prompted leading jockey Michael Cahill to declare the performance wasn't a true indication of how well the four-year-old is racing.

The gelding only had a short neck to spare over Cash 'n' Style in Saturday's Burton and Ryan Property Agents Handicap (1600m) but Cahill was quick to defend the gelding's performance.

"I know the time and margin didn't suggest it but I thought he won with a bit more in hand today than he did last start when he won by a big space," Cahill said.

"If anything, he got to the front a bit soon but when I hit him he lifted and he had them beaten so I just rode him out hands and heels."

Boys On Tour has his share of critics for failing to live up to a "boom" placed on him after a spectacular barrier trial win before his first start.

But Cahill believes he has turned the corner.

"Sometimes he thinks a bit but I must admit these last two starts he's been in a different frame of mind and he's showed that in his winning performances," he said.

Brett Killion, the Queensland manager for Patinack Farm, said Boys On Tour's form has improved as he's become accustomed to winning.

"On the Monday morning after his last win he was bouncing around the farm and thought he was king of the place so he's in a good frame of mind at the moment," Killion said.

Cahill said Peron ($2.10 fav), a stablemate of Boys On Tour, was a "certainty beaten" after her unlucky third to Carmora in the Rhino Water Tanks Handicap (1600m).

"She turned her head as soon as the gates opened and then she got back in a slowly run race," he said.

"If she'd jumped cleanly I would have been third and pretty much in the one out and one back spot and they wouldn't have beaten her from there."

Winning trainer Desleigh Forster said Carmora's raceday ability is in stark contrast to his lazy behaviour in trackwork.

"If you worked him with another horse he'd get lapped he's that slow on the track," Forster said.

"But he's got a high cruising speed in races and once he gets into stride he keeps going. He'll stay all day."