Victorian jockey Ben Melham joined some elite company when Santa Ana Lane presented him with his third victory in the $1 million Group 1 Darley Goodwood at Morphettville last Saturday.
Melham is the only active jockey to have won the Goodwood more than once, and only South Australian champions John Letts (five) and Roy Medhurst (four) have a better record in the race.
Coming off a last-start third in the Group 3 D.C. McKay Stakes, Santa Ana Lane ($26) settled near the rear of the field before Melham weaved the Lope de Vega gelding through the field to record a 1¼-length win.
Lope de Vega is also the sire of last year’s winner (and last Saturday’s unplaced favourite), Vega Magic.
 The win of Santa Ana Lane completed an excellent Festival of Racing for Mornington trainer Anthony Freedman, who won the Group 1 UBET Classic (Robert Sangster Stakes) a fortnight earlier with Shoals.
The result completed a Victorian sweep of South Australia’s Group 1s this season. Darren Weir won the other two with Sopressa (Schweppes Oaks) and Leicester (SA Derby). 
Now the winner of two Group 1 races this season, the first being the Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield last September, Santa Ana Lane is likely to head to Brisbane for the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1350m) at Doomben on June 9.
Weiry, Frosty hard to stop 
While Darren Weir’s trio of Goodwood runners could do no better than seventh, that didn’t stop him having a day to remember, with three black-type winners.
All three were ridden by WA-born, Victorian-based hoop Damian “Frosty” Lane, who finished with four wins on the eight-race card.
Weir and Lane, who’d combined the week before to win the SA Derby with Leicester, kicked off last Saturday with $1.55 favourite Yogi in the listed Port Adelaide Cup (2500m), a race that deserved a bigger field than the six runners who faced the starter.
Yogi came from the rear of the field to win comfortably. The five-year-old will now be spelled with a view to the spring. 
Lane and Weir struck again when Pleasuring ($3) picked up the Group 3 SA Fillies Classic (2500m). Weir also provided the third and fourth placegetters (Teodora and So You Leica).
Victorian fillies filled the first eight placings.
Lane and Weir completed their treble when $2.70 favourite Land of Plenty took out the Group 3 Robert & Fay Gerard R.A. Lee Stakes (1600m). 
The last-start Flemington winner came from the rear of the field and was still 12th of the 15 runners at the 200-metre mark.
Earlier, Lane teamed with Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra to steer Marcel From Madrid ($12) from midfield to win the Group 3 National Stakes for two-year-olds over 1200 metres.
Undefeated from two starts, Marcel From Madrid will now be spelled with the spring three-year-old features in mind — as will stablemate and runner-up Aristia. 
Glass gets it done
On a day when Victorian stables won seven of the eight races, Naracoorte horsewoman Sue Jaensch flew the flag for the Croweaters with Have Another Glass ($13) in the listed Centaurea Stakes (2019m). 
The five-year-old Domesday mare came from a rearward position to bring up her seventh win from 19 starts, and more importantly from a pedigree perspective her first in black-type company. Her previous best result was a Group 2 placing in last year’s Queen of the South Stakes. 
The win capped a big couple of days for Jaensch, who’d taken the training honours at Penola the previous day with a double. Her winners were Little Britt and The Ant’s Pants, both ridden by apprentice Raquel Clark.
Treble to Hurdle
Jockey Ryan Hurdle was the star of last Saturday’s Flying Doctor race day at Port Augusta — celebrating 90 years of service — with a treble. Hurdle’s winners were Celtic Blast, Masking and Awesome Star.
Another highlight was apprentice Justin Huxtable’s 100th winner - the Simon Drewitt-trained Lady Conquistador.

All the ones for in-form Kah
Jamie Kah’s stellar season continued with a treble at Gawler on Wednesday. The wins took her 2017/18 tally in SA to 111, at the remarkable strike rate of 26 per cent.
Her nearest rival, Todd Pannell, has 77 wins at 17.5 per cent. No other jockey has a strike rate above 15.2. With more than two months of the season remaining Kah is only 18 off the record 129 SA winners she rode last season.
On Wednesday she combined with Angaston trainer Tony McEvoy to win on Beauty ($2.70 favourite) and Jimmytown Jewel ($3.70). Kah’s other winner was the Wayne Francis and Glen Kent-prepared He’s Got Skills ($4.40 favourite).  Master Black ($7) completed a double for Francis and Kent with apprentice Kayla Crowther in the saddle.