Former leading jockey Garry Murphy has saddled up his first winner as a trainer.
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He opened his account with first-starter That's A Blast at Werribee on Friday.
The Ballarat-based Murphy has dabbled in training since retiring from a stellar career in the saddle in 2013.
He sent Jimmy Jinx to races five times in 2015, but was not sighted at track in a training capacity again until early this year.
Murphy had his first starter back with Turffinator in March has had four starts, including a second at Werribee.
That's A Blast went one better in the in the Tobin Brothers Maiden for fillies and mares, 1100m, with Ballarat apprentice jockey Will Price aboard.
Murphy's first success in training ranks could not have been scripted better.
That's A Blast is a three-year-old daughter former racemare Pyroclastic, which was the last winner Murphy rode and his last race side.
Pyroclastic gave Murphy his final success at Donald in August, 2012, and was his farewell mount at Geelong in June, 2013.
Murphy had close to 600 winners in four decades in the saddle, with Karaman and Let's Get Physical giving him some of his biggest winners.
He combined with the Robert Smerdon-trained Let's Get Physical to take out rhe 1985 Blue Diamond Stakes.
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TRAINING partners Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have been find $2000 for taking horses to jump-out at Sandown from their Ballarat stable.
Although Maher and Eustace have stables at Caulfield, the jump-outs at Sandown on Tuesday were for Caulfield-trained horses only.
Maher and Eustace were last week fined $2000 by stewards after a horse raced at Flemington in March after the horse was given shockwave therapy within the cut-off period before the race.
BALLARAT export and leading jockey Ben Melham has helped give Sydney champion trainer Gai Waterhouse her fifth VRC St Leger, 2800m in the past eight years.
Sacramento ($5.50) edged out Saint Eustace and then survived a protest, lodged by second-placed jockey Michael Walker for interference over the last 100m.
The victory, Melham's first in the St Leger, also have the training combination of Waterhouse and Adrian Bott their third successive win in the listed feature for three-year-olds.
Waterhouse started the streak with Hippopus (2013) and Order Of The Sun (2014) and since teaming with Bott in 2016 has been successful with Runaway (2018) and Transact last year.