Local skipper Lance Fraser pulled off the biggest upset of his still blossoming career during day two of the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup in Hamilton Harbor yesterday.The 18-year-old Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club (RHADC) sailor upstaged world number three Torvar Mirsky of Australia to place a huge feather in his cap.“It was a good win…. he sort of gave us an opening with a passing lane and we took it and it worked out in the end,” the Queen’s University freshman said. “We were able to get by him and it finished well and so we are happy about that.”Mirsky, who won the St Moritz Match Race earlier this year on the World Match Racing Tour (WMRT), praised his more youthful Group Two rival.“He deserved the win and sailed really well so full credit to him,” he said.“The group is really tough and these young guys are taking races off us.”Fraser also put in good showings against past Gold Cup winners Peter Gilmour and Johnie Berntsson but came up short as experience ultimately prevailed over youth on those occasions.He was also unfortunate to have half a point deducted for colliding with Berntsson in his final match of the day.But despite ending the day on a sombre note, Fraser still had much to be proud of having earlier demonstrated the enormous potential he has.“We were sailing fast but I feel we might have gotten a little unlucky in two of the races,” he added.“Hopefully we can build on that and try and put ourselves in better positions to win.”Also claiming a sole win yesterday was Bermuda’s Blythe Walker who beat Sweden’s Bjorn Hansen in his final Group One match of the day.“Today I think we had a couple of good races,” he said. “I made stupid mistakes in the first two races and thankfully held it together against Bjorn.“The guys got us around the track fairly easily but it’s just that I’m doing things on the tiller which don’t help.”Like Fraser, Walker still has much to do if he is to stand any chance of progressing to the quarterfinals when racing resumes today.“Hopefully we can have cleaner races going forward,” he said.Enduring a baptism of fire was Walker’s compatriot Peter Miller who lost all of his matches against Damien Iehl, Simone Ferrarese, Eric Monnin and Mathieu Richard.“It was a tough day but we had fun doing it,” he said, putting a positive spin on the situation.“I think we kept it close in a couple of races and so definitely there’s some things we can take away.“This (match racing) is new for us and new for me and so I’m excited to see what happens tomorrow (today).”