A LAST-minute online budget buy and a cobbled-together syndicate of owners have combined to claim the 2024 $30,000 Moama Bowling Club Gunbower Gold Cup, the first one run in five years.

Cadazio was snapped up for $9000 by a Johnstone Racing-led syndicate with the express purpose of targeting country cups.

And on Saturday the plan played out to perfection when the five-year-old Kiwi gelding storm...