The "King", jockey Peter Graham, was back in style riding four of the five winners at Wauchope Jockey Club's memorial meeting at the Beechwood Road Racecourse on Saturday.
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The 52-year-old won from the front, from the back and the middle of the field on mostly gallopers he was riding for the first time and he didn't disappoint.
Graham regularly rode the bulk of the card at Wauchope over the decades but it was his first big haul for some time.
Two of the winners came from a truck load of gallopers brought from Muswellbrook by Luke Thomas.
One of them was four-year-old mare Pleasure Bomb ($4.60) which scored by a half length in the M & S Print Jan O'Neill Memorial Benchmark 50 Handicap over 1000m.
The mare also won at Wauchope's May meeting and she obviously likes the Wauchope track.
Thomas also had accepted with Wauchope's Boxing Day winner Dark Elixir but scratched the seven-year-old on race morning to be reserved for a race at Muswellbrook on Tuesday.
Pleasure Bomb broke the track record with a run of 57.80s, the local favourite, the resuming Achilles Pride ($2.80), trained by the Mid North Coast's leading mentor Colt Prosser, a length back in third.
Thomas said his mare usually races well fresh, having not started since June.
His other winner was five-year-old mare Swizeler ($3) which had a gear change after a dismal failure without them at Port Macquarie in October.
"I had the tongue-tie back on today," he said.
Graham added: "He (Swizeler) handled the track really good."
The jockey was chuffed to ride seven-year-old Cessnock gelding Time Stalker for trainer Dean Jackson as it was named after his late friend in being the Hastings Co-op-Bob Graham Memorial Class 1 Handicap over 1240m and won by just under a length at odds of $3.60.
"Bob Graham might have given me a help from upstairs ... I used to ride for him."
Not many local meetings go by without Wauchope trainer Grant Prosser getting a winner and he did so with his sole starter, five-year-old mare Nayvadius ($3.40), a three lengths winner in the Wauchope Stock & Estate-Colin Eldridge Memorial Maiden Handicap over 1240m.
It was having its 17th start with Peter Graham in the saddle and was under threat of being sold had it not won.
Owners John and Jan Kemp said the $1500 buy as a yearling may get a reprieve from being sold.
Wauchope jockey Belinda Hodder had a kicking five-year-old mare Miss Hanson, trained by George Woodward from Walcha, to contend with in the Hastings Hotel-Anoy Neal Memorial Old Boys Cup Benchmark 45 Handicap over 1800m but she had the last "laugh" in scoring by a half length on the $4 pop.
"She is a real trier and put her head down right on the line," Hodder said.
Woodward at the cup ceremony said he was formerly from Port and "it is nice to be back on a good track at a good meeting."