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Popular trainer Paddy Cunningham’s great summer reached a high on his new home track on January 9 when he won three races including the Glen Innes Cup.

Carry Me Gee Gee gave Cunningham his second successive win in the Glen Innes Cup after last year’s victory with Miss Caitlyn while his treble came after his stable landed a New Year’s Day double at Inverell.

Cunningham’s Glen Innes treble has him heading for a career best season. He has won almost 200 races as a trainer and has steadily improved his strike rate each season with 2014/15 his best to date when he won 20 races.

He already has 13 wins on the board this season and is well placed to pass last season’s mark by July 30.

Cunningham has trained at Grafton for some time but three years ago started moving his team to Glen Innes on the New England ranges to escape the coastal summer heat.

After last Saturday’s success Cunningham confirmed that he is now a permanent Glen Innes trainer.

“It’s great to have the Glen Innes Cup won by a Glen Innes horse,” he said.

His talented stable apprentice Jodi Worley has ridden both of Cunningham’s Glen Innes Cup winners and is very much a part of his success over the last 18 months.

Worley also re-located from Grafton to join the Cunningham stable at Glen Innes.

“Paddy has been a huge help to me all through my career,” said Worley, who has ridden more than 80 winners over the last two years.

Carry Me Gee Gee, owned by Cunningham and his wife Kathy, has won five of his 27 starts with the Glen Ines Cup his third in succession after wins at Grafton and Inverell.