The 20-year-old from Christchurch didn't eclipse the late Sylvia Potts' time of 2m 04s but she didn't stray from the script.
The smattering of spectators and a record number of 143 athletes didn't seem to mind.
It was still a sight to behold, taking in Smit's physical and mental domination of a race in which she set the pace at 49 seconds after the first 200m then showed the field a clean pair of heels to clock 2m 6.97s.
The Canterbury University bachelor of arts student, who hopes to top it up with an early-childhood course, never looked like losing her perch.
That is not to say she wasn't under some pre-race duress.
"I had quite a lot of pressure with a lot of people expecting me to do well," Smit said, adding it didn't help to find her photograph on the programme of the meeting.
Despite being a few metres ahead of second place-getter Anna Bramley, of North Harbour (2:9.71), Smit wasn't taking any chances.
"I was still quite scared to the finish line because someone can finish with a sprint.
"I was kind of tiring out coming up the home straight so I just had to keep kicking," she said, her chest still heaving minutes after the finish.
Not eclipsing 2m 04s disappointed the Cantabrian, considering her personal best is a second below Sylvia Potts' time.
"I've done 2:3 so it's off my best, which I'd done over a year ago, so I really need to crack down," she said, confident the time was do-able in Hastings on her next visit.
While she would love to go to the London Olympics, Smit accepts she isn't ready for it just yet, considering some athletes are setting blistering times in Europe.
"Rio 2016, I think, is a little more realistic for me - and the Commonwealth Games.
"I'm only 20, so I don't want to peak at that age - we'll see what happens."
In club races in Canterbury, she jostles in a field of blokes for a challenge to boost her time.
"We don't have a track in Christchurch because of the earthquake, so that's a bit of a shame right now," she said, adding athletes were training on grass tracks.
However, Smit intends to travel to Australia from February 8 for four weeks to compete in three meetings, including the Sydney Classics and the national championship.
"It'll help because there are a lot of fast Aussies there, too," she said, hoping to return for the next Potts classic.
"I love coming here but I don't why," she said, laughing before accepting it did help when she won the glamour event three times in succession.
"The organisers [Allan Potts and son Richard] are lovely and I just like this track," Smit said, claiming the memorial aspect of the meeting also made it special.
She plans to invest the $300 prize money in going out to flat for the first time this year in Christchurch.
She was heading off to Wellington yesterday for today's meeting there, but would compete in the 1500m event because they didn't have an 800m one for senior women.
Her PB in 1500m is 4m 24s but she hoped to whittle it down to 4m 20s.
"[The] 800 is more my event but as I get older maybe [1500]," she said, ruling out going to Wanganui on Friday.
Rebekah Greene, 18, who will study applied sciences at Otago University this year after graduating from St Hilda's College in Dunedin, is quite familiar with Smit's heels after several races.
"She's pretty good because she sets the pace for the first lap and then often loses us with about 200 or 300 to go," the Hill City club athlete from Dunedin said, claiming the goal was to inch closer to her after every outing.
She kept up with Smit's scorching pace but ran out of petrol with Bramley pushed her into third place (2m 10.96s).
"Usually I've been about 0.1 second behind her [Smit] so I would have liked to have been closer to her today," she said, adding the cool evening was ideal but she "didn't have the legs".
Allan Potts said it was a "brilliant race" despite Smit failing to break Sylvia Potts' time.
"I suppose she had a hard race in Brisbane the previous weekend [clocking 2m 06s] so she probably couldn't come here and do it again," the 77-year-old said.
Smit's coach, Maria Hassan, of Christchurch, had confirmed to Potts that her runner would definitely return next summer to try to break Sylvia Potts' time. The winner will take a bonus of $400 if she improves on that time.
"There was great support from the North Shore [Bay Cougars] team and the Young Olympians Tour and they've had a marvellous time over the week," said Potts of the classic.
It raises funds through a gold coin donation to the Hawke's Bay Cancer Society after the dreaded disease claimed the life of Sylvia Potts on August 31, 1999.
