Archie Alexander is making a habit stringing together wins with back-to-back runners.
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The Ballarat gallops trainer this week did it for the third time in a month.
They were spread over two meetings, with Hennybodys ($18) in a benchmark64, 1800m, at Sandown on Wednesday and Von Classic Hero ($4 favourite) in a benchmark70 handicap, 1500m, at Geelong on Thursday
MATT Cumani is chasing a third win with his latest three starters when he saddles up Show A Star in the $30,000 Camperdown Cup, 1600m, on Saturday.
Mr Coyne won in November and then on New Year's Day for Cumani - either side of the stable being quarantined after a case of strangles was detected.
Show A Star provided Cumani with his first and to date only city win at Caulfield in May.
Darren Weir has 5yo mare Star Circle in the cup.
LEADING New Zealand trainer-driver Mark Purdon will be a special guest at the PETstock Ballarat Pacing Cup barrier draw function at the Provincial Hotel on Monday night.
The cup draw has traditionally taken place on the Tuesday morning, but the schedule has been changed to allow the Ballarat District Trotting Club to run a special function.
Purdon won last year’s Cup with Smolda, and will be chasing back-to-back wins in the group 1 event on Saturday, January 21.
MICHAEL Stanley produced a training and driving double at Charlton trots on Thursday.
Shez Saul Good ($7.20) scored her first career win at her second outing for the Burrumbeet stable in a 3yo, 2100m, and Spoho Madelaine ($1.30 favourite) stretched her winning sequence to three in a C2-C3 pace., 2100m.
Shez Saul Good is from the same female line as Bellas Boy (16 wins).
TWO of the state’s biggest stable for trotters also tasted success on Thursday.
Anton Golino from Cardigan saluted with My Chimera ($2 favourite) in a T0-T1 trots, 2100m, at Charlton. The NZ-bred three-year-old filly had been unplaced in her only other two starts.
Then in Ballarat it was the turn of Daylesford trainer Bob Conroy with Girls Go First ($7.60), which made it two wins on end in a T1/better handicap, 2200m. The six-year-old mare had been out of winning form for more than 12 months before this latest return to form.
CARDIGAN'S Emma Stewart is pursuing a second country cup in as man week.
With Major Secret having saluted at Horsham, she lines up top class mare Berisari in the $30,000 Hamilton Pacing Cup, 2660m, on Sunday. Berisari has not raced since November, when she strung two wins together at Melton.
Daylesford trainer Michael Barby back up from Horsham with It Is Billy at Hamilton.
