Brendon Hearps-trained gelding My Lesson again proved hard to catch for punters when he scored a dominant 3¼ length win at Swan Hill on Monday in the $15,000 Jockey Celebration Day BM64 (975m).
Racing for the first time since finishing last at Terang in early February, the rising five-year-old was sent around at a $9 quote but victory was never in doubt after he saw daylight at the 300 metres.
The win was the fourth of five on the 10-race card for jockey Brad Rawiller.
“It was a terrific win — his biggest problem has just been overracing,” Rawiller told Racing Live.
“There was good speed today and he was wanting to run in the first part, but once I got him covered he switched off nice and it was a good win.”
My Lesson had never previously won first up.
Last campaign he finished last on resuming, then scored an easy four-length Echuca win at $10.
Monday’s victory was My Lesson’s third and his second over the 975-metre circuit at Swan Hill. He won at the same meeting last year in maiden grade.
Monday’s win was Hearps’s fourth for the 2014/15 season.
Carryn, Comfortably
Bendigo-based apprentice Carryn Londregan gave new meaning to the saying “Have saddle, will travel” when she piloted Comfortably to win the $50,000 TABTouch Roebourne Cup (2200m) last Saturday at Roebourne in Western Australia’s north.
Londregan (formerly Downie) had a full book of rides on the seven-race program, winning on Comfortably for Bunbury trainer Dave Jones and placing on Incoherent for South Hedland-based Robert Bell.
 The cup win made it three on the trot for Comfortably, who scored earlier in July at Marble Bar and Port Hedland.
Londregan positioned the gelding in the box seat then swept wide in the straight to get up in the final bounds at $6.
The Roebourne racecourse is situated on the North West Coastal Highway, 1563km from Perth.
Meeting transfer
The Bendigo meeting scheduled for this Sunday has been transferred to Horsham.
Bendigo’s meeting on July 22, which was transferred from Sandown, left sections of the track displaying signs of wear and tear on the back of a busy winter period.
The next meeting to be conducted at Bendigo is on Sunday August 16 — the popular Taste of Spring raceday, coinciding with the Bendigo Fashion Festival.
Celebration time
As the 2014/15 season comes to a close, Goldfields-based stables have again fared well with 26 individual trainers combining for a total of 117 winners.
The season saw the first Bendigo-trained group in eight years — the Danny Curran-trained Written Dash in the Typhoon Tracy Stakes.
A memorable local double at Bendigo’s metro-class Saturday meeting in March with Setinum in the Bendigo Guineas and The Big Dance in the VOBIS Gold Rush added to the highlight reel.
The Bendigo Trainers Association is inviting racing people to celebrate the season at the 2014/15 All Seasons Hotel Bendigo Racing Awards on August 15, at the on-course Silks Function Centre.
Local racecaller Rick McIntosh will be the MC with nine awards to be presented including Horse of the Year.
Entertainment and a two-course meal is provided at a cost of $75 per head and bookings can be made by contacting the Bendigo Jockey Club on (03) 5448 4209.