Raquel Clark made some early ground on Adelaide jockeys’ premiership leader Jamie Kah by winning the first two races at Gawler last Saturday, but Kah fought back with a double of her own to stretch her margin back to 14.

The title race has been thrown open by Kah’s announcement that she is moving to Melbourne for at least three months, but her lead on the chasing peleton remains substantial — especially considering Kah has said she will be “coming back and forth a bit”.
She’s declared she will “definitely” return for the Adelaide Cup (March 11) and the three Group 1 meetings in May.
She already has 37 winners, having won last season’s title with 63. Jason Holder and Todd Pannell were second and third with 37 winners apiece.
Last Saturday Kah and Clark shared the riding honours with Jake Toeroek, who is in fifth place on the Adelaide premiership with 14 wins — 23 behind Kah and nine behind Clark. 
Clark opened her account at Gawler when $2.25 favourite Table of Wisdom brought up a hat-trick of Gawler 1500-metre wins in the benchmark 82 handicap.
Trained at Normanville by Dennis O’Leary, the five-year-old gelding led all the way and may measure up as a country cups contender. 
Clark brought up successive winners when Wasabi Bob ($3.70) took out the benchmark 82 handicap (2102m) for her co-masters, Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas. Wasabi Bob was in the first two throughout the race.
Clark went on to make it five wins for the weekend when she rode a treble at Port Lincoln on Sunday, on the Julie Bamford-prepared duo Ruby’s Reward and Hand to Hand as well as Kingson for Byron Cozamanis junior. 
Kah’s first winner at Gawler was another on-pacer, $1.50 favourite No Ties in the benchmark 70 over 1100 metres. 
Trained at Murray Bridge by Mick Huxtable, No Ties has two wins from four starts but Huxtable is taking it a race at a time. 
Teaming with horseman Will Clarken, Kah landed the second leg of her double when Everyday Lady ($2.45) came from midfield to win the 1100-metre benchmark 64 first up from a spell.
Kah was again in the winner’s enclosure at Port Lincoln last Sunday when she guided the Darryl Carrison prepared Storm Voyager to successive wins in a 1210 metre Class 2 handicap. 
Toeroek’s first Gawler winner went against the prevailing on-pace pattern, the Travis Doudle-trained Polar Vortex ($7) coming from the back half to win the 1702-metre benchmark 64.
Teaming with the father-daughter trainers Richard and Chantelle Jolly, Toeroek completed his double when Kemalpasa ($5.50) powered home from midfield to win the 1200 metre benchmark 70 handicap.

On Wednesday, Kah farewelled the SA scene — for the time bing at least — in style with a popular running double at Strathalbyn.
Kah’s winners were the Jake Stephens-prepared Small Scale ($1.55 favourite) and the Stephen Theodore-trained Silent Ice ($3.40 favourite).

Having made a successful comeback from injury by riding Strategic Demand to victory at Gawler a fortnight ago, apprentice Kayla Crowther started on a three-month loan to trainer Phillip Stokes at his Pakenham stables on Monday.
Ceduna all set
The Ceduna Racing Club will hold its non-TAB cup meeting on Saturday, with the Foreshore Hotel Ceduna Cup (1600m) the second heat of the Bill Holland series.