BENDIGO drivers dominated Wednesday night's meeting at Mildura's City Oval Paceway.
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Alex Ashwood (four) and Michelle Phillips (two) combined for six winners on the 10-race card, with trainer Kate Hargreaves emerging with a double following wins with her pacing mare Lorimer Lady and recent stable addition Rambunctious.
It continued a productive two days for the region's trainers and drivers, after Dylan Marshall (Glitznglam), Ross Graham (Major Manbar), Keith Semmens (Downunder Barkers) and Ellen Tormey (Our Quick Cash) all notched success at Tuesday night's Halloween themed meeting at Lord's Raceway.
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Ashwood's haul of four was from eight drives, which included a second aboard the Sandra O'Connor/Mildura-trained Trooper Bossman in race two.
He would go on to notch wins for O'Connor with Baileborough and She Can Rock, as well as partnering the Hargreaves-trained Lorimer Lady and Rambunctious to emphatic victories.
Those wins boosted the former Tasmanian's win tally this season to 12, putting him well on the way to eclipsing last year's career-best mark of 66.
A fourth win in five starts continued a purple patch of form for Lorimer Lady since her arrival at the Hargreaves-Ashwood stable mid-year.
"She had always shown a bit of ability for her previous trainer Dick Howarth and ran a couple of nice trials, but I think the way we are training her at the moment is really suiting her," Ashwood said.
"She's a mare who doesn't take much work, but she looks and feels strong and is getting better and better."
Hargreaves and Ashwood can look forward to some exciting times ahead with Rambunctious, who blitzed a field of seven to beat his nearest rival by 31.80 metres.
"He has only been in our camp for about three weeks, but he's in great order and is a horse who is on the way up and probably should win a few more races pretty quickly," Ashwood said about the former Anthony Butt and Sonya Smith-trained three-year-old.
A double to Phillips, from only three drives, boosted her season tally to nine winners.
The accomplished young reinswoman notched her first winner of the night aboard the Ben Yole-trained Somedan, before adding a second for Mildura trainer Kate Attard with Apache Wind.
Phillips was unlucky not to make it three for the night, when only narrowly beaten on the Jason McGinty-trained Roll the Seven in a NR 56 to 61 pace.
A sentimental win for Good Onya ended a run of 30 starts in between victories for the nine-year-old gelding and gave trainer O'Connor a treble of wins for the meeting.
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