Bendigo trainer Allen Browell enjoys win at Ballarat

Moments after Browell scored a third win from 11 starts with the promising four-year-old Star Hills, his wife Val revealed the veteran trainer would call time on his career at the end of the 2018-19 racing season.

While Val could not predict what lied in store for the victorious gelding, she hinted whoever took over the horse following Browell's retirement would be inheriting a horse with plenty of potential.

"Whoever gets him after that, I hope he continues on for them," she told broadcaster Racing.com after Star Hill's fighting 1100m benchmark 58 win.

"He's been a pet all the way through. I raced his mother (Two Hills) and we have just had so much fun with him.

"The mare she won a heap of races in Melbourne, so we're loving it."

Star Hills has been particularly good this campaign, which started with a win at Donald in late March and has included a pair of thirds at Werribee and Echuca, and just the one unplaced run at Ballarat in April.

Val Browell credited the two kilogram claim for apprentice rider Tom Stockdale as a factor in an impressive win, which defied the gelding's usual racing pattern.

"It's not really his pattern to get so far back, we were off the bit a long way out, but to his credit he kept fighting to the line," the winning jockey said

"I have been pleased with the amount of support I have been getting lately.

"I'm still learning and have got plenty to learn, I am just eager to get as many rides as I can and progress through my apprenticeship."

Star Hills ($3.50) boosted his career earnings to more than $52,000 for his owners.

The gelding is one of two horses Browell currently has racing

The other Stylish Pattern finished third in a maiden event earlier on the program behind the Simon Morrish-trained long-shot Iron Lion ($19) over 1400m.

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