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It was a day of highs and lows for Team Wells at Devonport on Sunday with the training partnership of Leon, Dean and Trent snaring a double but Dean’s daughter, apprentice Chloe Wells, suffered a badly broken leg in a race fall in the seventh event.

The talented apprentice partnered the Vern Poke-trained Sizzkye to a surprise win in Goodstone Group Maiden-Class 1 before hitting the deck on Gee Gee Devonboy in race seven.

Young Wells suffered a fractured femur and is likely to be out of the saddle for up to six months.

But the win of the heavily backed Dargo ($3) and outsider Lady Joker ($29) softened the blow for the family.

Dargo, formerly with Victorian trainer Cindy Alderson, was having only his third start for Team Wells and his record in Tasmania expanded to two wins and a second and all on his home track in Devonport.

Dargo was allowed to settle near last in the Nova Design and Print Benchmark 78 Handicap by rider Siggy Carr but when the gelded son if Fiorente charged around the field 500m from home and hit the front at the top of the straight, he powered home to score from Possession and Miss Excess, that was ridden by Chloe Wells.

"We got this horse from Cindy Alderson after I told her that the stable was looking for a stayer, because we didn't have one at the time," Trent Wells said.

"We looked after a horse of Cindy's when she came over for the Tassie carnival and we got on well and it all led to us getting a couple of horses from her.

"Dargo is a nice type and the way he is progressing I'm confident he can be aimed at least towards a couple of the minor cups next season.

"He is only a four-year-old, so he has plenty of time to mature."

Lady Joker gave Dianne Parish her second win for the season, but it was one of her best efforts, bringing the mare from well back on the home turn to power home over her rivals to win the Thai Imperial benchmark 66 Handicap by over a length.

However, Parish ended the day on a sour note when she was suspended for one week over a whip offence aboard Sardegna Deal in an earlier race.

Parish will be allowed to ride at next Sunday's Devonport meeting and take her penalty at the meeting in Hobart the following week.