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A feature race double has elevated an already super season in the saddle for Jake Toeroek.
The former Dux of the Racing SA Apprentice Academy has ridden 33 winners in season 2022-23, sitting just four shy of his mark from last year with a third of the season to go.
Jake Toeroek claimed the Listed Manihi Classic aboard Little Miss Kubi for Victorian horseman Cliff Brown before he teamed up with the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained As Time Goes By to win the Listed Clare Lindop Stakes.
Managed by Lindop's husband Damien Wilton, Toeroek said the feature was race he'd always wanted to secure.
"I always wanted to win the Clare Lindop Stakes,'' Toeroek said.
"We had a great run through, I hit the front and felt like I was going to pull away, but she didn't sprint as well as I thought she would.
"She wacked away so she'll obviously get further,'' he said.
Lightly-raced Victorian filly Little Miss Kubi put some value on her pedigree page when she proved too smart for her rivals in Manihi.
Toeroek said he was caught by surprise just how well the horse, having just her eighth start, began finding herself sitting outside race favourite Philonize who she put away on the corner before holding off rivals.
"We thought Philonize and Queman were the speed horses, I didn't think I'd be that close,'' Toeroek said.
"I didn't want to let Philonize get too far away from me, once she hit the front she had a good look at winning post,'' he said.
Toeroek shared riding honours with Jason Holder who scored with Pearl Adios before getting Crown Mint back into the winners stall for the Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle stable, the second leg of a training double for the Morphettville combination who took training honours.
MOUNT Gambier trainer Trevor White will chase another Country Cup with Clever Man after he made it back to back Mount Gambier Gold Cup wins on Friday.
Clever Man will back up in Saturday's Onkaparinga Cup at Oakbank, the race he finished third in last year.
Peter Hardacre's Chill With Teejay claimed the first heat of the SA Sprint Series, while Victorian horseman Paul Preusker won the Blue Lake Handicap with Dothraki.
And at Gawler on Sunday the Racing SA Apprentice Academy stole the show winning six of the seven races.
