BENDIGO trainers Shaun Dwyer and Sean Mott enjoyed successful trips to Wangaratta last Friday.
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Dwyer started the meeting with a bang when the three-year-old filly Punk Princess scored her first win at career start number four in a 1170m maiden.
Three races later, Mott added his name to the winners' list with another victory for his much-loved stayer In Her Honour.
Those wins added to a string of victories for the Bendigo training ranks across a five-day period, starting with Nick Smart's success with the tough-as-nails jumper Getting Leggie in the $135,000 Brierly Steeplechase at Warrnambool on Tuesday.
Shane Fliedner notched up the first of two wins for the week with Catcha Spark on Thursday at Werribee and followed up with a metropolitan win at Caulfield on Saturday with the highly promising three-year-old Hi Stranger.
Punk Princess, a $10 chance, provided gun apprentice Campbell Rawiller the first leg of a treble for the day.
The son of former Bendigo jockey Nash Rawiller was also aboard In Her Honour ($5.90), who has now won twice in her last three starts for Mott.
The four-year-old mare followed up a win at Mornington over 2030m last month with a highly competitive third at Moe on Anzac Day, before adding career win number three (from 20 starts) at Wangaratta.
In Her Honour, who is named in honour of Mott's late wide Deanna, showed plenty of courage, to hit the lead at about the 200m and hold off the fast-finishing Von Mystic to continue her consistent run of form.
Dwyer narrowly missed making it a quinella in the opening race, with Chilula, ridden by John Keating, having to settle for third place behind her stable-mate and the Kevin Corstens-trained Gold Current.
It added to a string of five placings from nine starts for the four-year-old mare, for whom a win must surely be coming.
Bendigo jockey Brad Rawiller helped himself to a win at Wangaratta aboard the Seymour-trained Really Swish.
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