By David Nagel
The Pakenham Racing Club’s elite training facility at Tynong is certainly producing some winners with eight victors emerging from the track between Wednesday and Saturday last week.
Peter Moody trained a winning double at Sandown on Wednesday, with Forbidden City and Attractable both hitting the line first, before jockey Fred Kersley piloted the Phillip Stokes-trained Wish Master to an impressive win at Kilmore on Thursday.
Later that evening, at Pakenham, Silly Salmon won the opening race for Mick Huglin, before Denim Wars finished powerfully to win race two.
Stokes then took over the crown, with short-priced favourite Tobaysure smashing his rivals in race three, before Ben Allen gave Stokes a winning double when Bottom Line scored in race seven.
And popular trainer Ron Stephens finished off a great four days for the locals when his seven-year-old gelding Angel Toff made it seven wins from 46 starts with a tough victory at the Buchan Picnics on Saturday.
Angel Toff had his foot on the till after running a solid second at Woolamai, on Cup Day, last week.
Jockey Leigh Taylor has now won twice on Angel Toff in the last six weeks, also winning at Drouin on Boxing Day.
