Boban gets bob in to land big mile Purple reign: Boban, right, arrives in time to win the group 1 Epsom Handicap at Randwick on Saturday. Not much went Boban's way in Saturday's Epsom Handicap, but most crucially his number went up first after a thrilling finish with gallant mare Streama. "The number went his way, the race didn't," Boban's jockey Glyn Schofield summarised. He had copped a severe check at the 600-metre mark and then pulled to the outside and charged to victory, producing something he had not been able to do before in his career. "He had to sustain a long run today, at his last two runs he has just sucked into the race and gone bang," Schofield said. I was lucky Jimmy [Cassidy on Riva De Lago] injected a bit more speed into it [from the 600m] and when I pulled off his back at the top of the straight I thought I was going to win by a length or so. When I got there I was on empty but he just kept coming. Boban got there in the nick of time in many ways to nose out Streama, which many, including jockey Hugh Bowman, thought had held on. Bowman rose in his irons to salute shortly after the post. "I obviously thought I had won," Bowman said. She just cruised up and was going easily. She saw Toydini and fought him off but she didn't see Boban, or else she would have fought him off as well. She showed again what a great little mare she is. There was only a nose in it as Boban got the nod, with Toydini adding to trainer Guy Walter's pain by running third a long head away. Boban gave Chris Waller his third group 1 for the season from what was an unexpected source. "I didn't expect he would be winning an Epsom after the last preparation but I thought he would be winning a couple of races," Waller said. His timing has just been great. He's got an amazing finish and he's starting to put it together and he's going to make it. I just let him get older ... it's as simple as that. As Bart Cummings will say, patience is the best thing and just wait for him to come [to hand]. We've stuck to our guns of riding him quiet. He's managed to get a bit of confidence out of that and his body has changed. Waller will head to Melbourne with Boban and is eyeing the Emirates Stakes on the final day of the Flemington carnival. He had thought Boban had won because "you always think that," after he produced his customary booming finish. Walter was left to praise his jockeys who rode perfect races on Streama and Toydini. "I thought they both rode them beautifully and could not have done any more," Walter said. You always have to tack on something for the outside here and the other horse just got us with the stride on the post. Blake Shinn on Toydini was left with no excuses but also thought Streama had won. "I had a beautiful run and got there at the right time and he [Toydini] was brave," Shinn said. I was a bit surprised that Streama didn't win because I thought she had won.