A TERRIFIC run of recent form for Charlton's Michael Gadsden and Denbeigh Wade continued at Shepparton on Tuesday night.
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Fresh from scoring a breakthrough win with Doitson on Sunday's Boort Pacing Cup program, the trainer-driver combo added a double at Shepparton on Tuesday night.
Back-to-back race wins with the three-year-old Captain Bling and the four-year-old mare Sporting Model gave Gadsden and Wade a perfect three wins from their last three starters.
Their recent spate of wins was the first since Maorishadow captured the $25,000 Group 3 Tontine Trotting Championship at Horsham on February 21, quickly boosting their tally for the season to four winners from 31 starts with four placings.
Most exciting for Gadsden and Wade, all three horses were first-time winners for the stable, with Captain Bling scoring on debut.
The gelding is owned by Pyramid Hill's John Kennedy and was able to account for the short-priced favourite Codys Colt, who was looking to score his first win at start number four, following a pair of consecutive placings at Cobram and Shepparton.
Sporting Model broke through for her first win at start number eight, accounting for another favourite in Jannali, from the Craig Turnbull stable.
A first-ever double for the stable followed on from Sunday's success with the luckless Doitson, who has had only the six starts in 12 months for Gadsden since his arrival from New Zealand, where he enjoyed six wins from 39 races.
Wade agreed the win had been a long time coming for the son of Bettors Delight and Sister Bertrand, who was one of two runners for the stable at Boort.
"I'm so happy to finally get a win with him, obviously he's had a few starts, but nothing's gone right," she said.
"It was good to have him finish off well.
"His two runs this time back have been huge, just nothing has gone right.
"Last week at Melton he copped a check at the top of the straight but he still picked himself up and ran home in a great last half.
"He's a very special horse and a quirky fellow as well - he's got his own attitude around home.
"It's great to get that first win on the board, but I'm sure there will be plenty more with him."
Three wins from her last three drives for Wade kept the Team Teal scoreboard ticking over in Victoria.
The state's female drivers have combined for 74 wins since February 1, raising $29,600 for ovarian cancer research.
Bendigo's Ellen Tormey, who drove Well Defined to victory in the trotters cup at Boort on Sunday, is the single biggest contributor to the tally with 13 wins, three ahead of Kate Gath and six ahead of Kerryn Manning.
Locally, Tayla French, Shannon O'Sullivan and Wade have driven three teal winners apiece.
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