IT’S often said things will get better tomorrow – and it’s a maxim sitting pretty comfortably with Inverell trainer Jo Methven at the moment.

Better Tomorrow, the horse Methven bought third-hand out of Victoria in 2023 while going through the process of getting her trainer’s license renewed, just keeps getting better.

The gelding was originally with Chris Waller in Sydney before transferring to Henry Dwyer at Ballarat, and came to Methven as a class 1 horse two years ago.

Better Tomorrow has now raced 10 times for Methven and her sister, Caroline Gardner, and notched its fourth win on Tuesday at Moree when ace hoop Kody Nestor took the fast lane home out wide in the straight to win the 1600m National Jockeys’ Trust BM-58 Handicap comfortably.

“I didn’t think he was comfortable the Melbourne way of going and bought him on a dot.com site,” Methven said.

“He came up for sale and I saw a bit of potential, so I jumped in and bought him.

“It took me a year to get my trainer’s license so he went out for a spell, and that was probably the best thing for him.

“I brought him back and it took a while to get his fitness levels up after a year off, and then he won a couple of mile races at Inverell and Moree,” she said.

Inverell trainer Jo Methven brings impressive winner Better Tomorrow, with Kody Nestor up, back to scale at Moree on Tuesday.

After a top sixth in a strong TAB Highway over the famous Randwick  mile – beaten two lengths – and an unplaced run at Eagle Farm in February, Better Tomorrow went for a short let-up.

“He couldn’t get out in the Highway and ran a great race, and was caught on the worst part of the track in Brisbane,” Methven said.

“We put him out for five weeks, and he didn’t lose a lot of fitness. He’s come back really strong this prep.

“I thought 1400m (at Inverell) was a bit much first-up but he was very fit and had other plans – I didn’t think he’d win, because the mile is more his go,” she said.

On Tuesday, Better Tomorrow ($4.40 fav) backed up Methven’s assessment when Kody Nestor brought the seven-year-old from worse than midfield to score by nearly three lengths from Brett Thompson’s Egyptologist ($5) and Clint Lundholm’s Stockholm ($6.50).

“Kody rode him well,” Methven said.

“He eased him down and didn’t do too much. It’s a big mile here at Moree, and he went wide looking for better going.

“The horse doesn’t like choppy tracks, and that’s what happened in Melbourne, I think.”

Methven will now look for longer – and better – races for Better Tomorrow.

“He’ll go up in grade now, so it’s going to get harder, but I think he’ll be a handy country cups horse,” she said.

Winning hoop Kody Nestor agreed.

“He’s a nice little horse,” Nestor said.

“I came here last year and won on him at a Sky 2 meeting. The horse goes really well and has a really good turn of foot.

“After a break, he won first-up at Inverell. That was a terrific win after he got back in the pack.

“Today, all the jockeys were adamant there was a fast lane out wide, and once we got out there it was game over.

“He’s a progressive little horse and I think he’ll get over further – up to 2000 metres – and could shape up to be a nice country cups horse,” Nestor said.