IT was almost a clean sweep for local trainers in the benchmark 52 1300 metre event at Wangaratta on Sunday.
Seymour’s Jamie Gibbons trained and rode the winner in race seven, the five-year-old True Prophet.
The win capped off a good run of form, the gelding having finished second at Ardlethan on March 21 and third at Tocumwal on April 4.
The track had been rated a soft 5 prior to the commencement of the meeting but a total of 30ml of rain throughout the day saw the track downgraded to a soft 7 by race 7 and was further downgraded to a heavy 8 prior to the running of race 8.
Gibbons elected to seek better going by taking a wide run, and scored by 0.3 lengths over Rushford, another Seymour trained horse.
Rushford has recently joined the stable of Steve Noble and was ridden by his daughter Samantha, who took a rails run after drawing barrier two.
The 10-year-old was having his 81st start, having run second at his only prior start for Noble. In fourth place was Frostration, for Kilmore trainer David Dean.
