Rookie trainer Ben Currie is headed west with his handy sprinter Sezwho after continuing his amazing strike rate at Eagle Farm on Thursday.

Toowoomba based Currie has been training for only two and a half years after initially considering a career as a journalist.

However, he has come into his own this season with 18 winners overall and a strike rate of 21 per cent.

In fact Currie, who has 35 horses in work, has had 11 winners in the past two and a half weeks including a career-best four on the same program at Gatton on October 22.

"Things have been going well and I think it is a matter of setting your horse for the right race," Currie said.

Using that theory, Currie will ignore a city Saturday race for Sezwho and instead head to western Queensland for the Roma Newmarket on Saturday week.

"He probably isn't just up to city Saturday class. The Roma Newmarket is worth $22,000 and that is his sort of race," Currie said.

Sezwho ($9) won the Sky Racing Handicap by a half length from favourite Sons of God ($2.80) with Merryanna ($7) the same distance away third.

Meanwhile, the most expensive horse to race at Eagle Farm on Thursday, Oosthuizen, broke his duck at his ninth start.

By Redoute's Choice out of Cannyanna, Oosthuizen cost $265,000 and is a full brother to 2010 Geelong Classic winner Milestone.

Trainer Kelly Schweida believes Oosthuizen will win more races over a middle distance.

There was drama after the opening race when stewards delayed the declaration of correct weight for 15 minutes to determine whether favourite Thomas The Welsh had been given a fair start.

Thomas The Welsh missed the jump by four lengths and battled into fifth in the Grinders Coffee Handicap won by Meteorologist.

After taking evidence and viewing the official race film of the incident, stewards declared Thomas The Welsh a runner saying the horse's own antics caused him to miss the start.