BALLARAT apprentice jockey Will Price continues to impress.
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He had a day out with four winners at Donald on Saturday.
His uncle and master Dan O'Sullivan combined with Price for a training double.
O'Sullivan scored with Gaucho ($2.30 favourite) in a maiden, 1620m, and Royal Bower ($5) in a 0-58 handicap, 1620m.
Gaucho continues a great association O'Sullivan has had with the three-year-old's owners, the Brown family.
They developed a close bond through the racing career of British General.
The Browns lost property and thoroughbreds in the Black Saturday fires.
Broodmare British Lion was among their horses to perish, but her foal British General was one of the survival stories from one of the worst disasters in Australian history.
British General bolted as the Browns attempted to save their horses. The family feared the worst, but the next day found him running up and down a gravel road with everything on either side burnt out.
Although plagued with injuries, British General went onto have eight wins, including four on city tracks.
Price's other wins came on Protection Money ($5) for Ballarat trainer Nigel Blackiston in a 0-58 handicap, 2000m, and Millie The Missile ($16) in a benchmark64, 1350m.
Price sits just outside the top 10 in the Victorian jockeys' premiership, with his quartet of successes taking his tally to 68.
He is fourth in the country premiership on 67.
CHAMPION horseman Peter Moody marked his return to training with a winner with his first starter back in Ballarat on Sunday.
The four-time Melbourne premiership-winning trainer saluted with Shepard ($2.50 favourite) in the Hertz Ballarat Benchmark78 Handicap, 2000m.
Moody's long-time stable jockey Luke Nolen was in the saddle. It was the first winner for the jockey/trainer partnership since March 3, 2016.
Previously based at Caulfield, Moody now has his stable at Pakenham.
Moody, who is best known for guiding champion sprint mare Black Caviar through her career unbeaten, bowed out of training ranks in 2016 after being handed a six-month suspension for having unintentionally administering excessive levels of cobalt to a horse.
BALLARAT trainer Nigel Blackiston had his second win of the weekend at Sportsbet Ballarat.
He took Accordingly ($9.50) to victory in the Hygain Winners Choice Class 1 Handicap, 1600m.
It was the mare's first win since breaking her maiden status at Donald in Marsh last year.
Mitch Freedman and Melody Cunningham were other Ballarat trainers to taste success on their home track.