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Jamie Kah turned Adelaide Cup Day into a homecoming parade at Morphettville on Monday.

The superstar rider won five of the nine races which included her first Adelaide Cup on Daqiansweet Junior for the Phillip Stokes stable.

She dominated from the outset winning the Listed Cinderella Stakes aboard Bistro for Anthony and Sam Freedman before reuniting with Morphettville horseman Ryan Balfour and Tullys Gold who recorded his second win in succession early in the day.

Things only got better from there.

Kah claimed a second feature race win in partnership with Will Clarken's Ironclad who was brilliant at his return from an unsuccessful spring to win the Listed Matrice Stakes before she rounded out her massive day winning on Ancient Girl in the Listed Adelaide Guineas for Clinton McDonald with the Group 3 Adelaide Cup wedged in between.

"This day should be all about Jamie Kah,'' McDonald said.

"Five winners on Adelaide Cup day – I don't think that's been done before, '' he said.

Kah's assessment of Daqiansweet Junior early in his preparation proved perfect as the horse thrived at the two-mile trip to gun don Tigertiger late in the race.

"It's always been a race I wanted to win,'' Kah said,

"I've got close before but to do it at home in front of friends and family, it's very special.

"I couldn't have planned it any better," she said.

ON Saturday at Morphettville Jacob Opperman and Dom Tourneur shared riding honours.

Opperman winning aboard Love Magic before Struck By made it two wins from as many starts in his four-year-old campaign, for the Travis Doudle stable.

Tourneur was victorious with Rubble before promising mare Rich Gina score impressively for the Peter Blanch stable.

AND at Clare on Sunday, Hong Kong apprentice Nichola Yuen landed her first success in the saddle with a winning double getting Mr Metrics and Korodon home for her bosses Richard and Chantelle Jo