The dual-state stable of Phillip and Tommy Stokes regained the lead on the Adelaide training premiership with a double at Morphettville last Saturday. 
The SA double came as consolation for a disappointing day at Caulfield, where all four Stokes runners were unplaced including Toorak Handicap fancy Regal Award.
The Stokes team’s first Morphettville winner was Regal Ripper ($14) in the 0-64 Aceit Transport Solutions Handicap (1522m). The four-year-old Zousain gelding came from last with a well timed run over the concluding stages under Harry Grace.
The father-son trainers completed their double with Bohemian Angel ($5), who settled rearward in the 0-64 Vale John Nelligan Handicap (1200m) under Noel Callow before finishing strongly to score by a length and a quarter.
That win also completed a double for Callow, who’d won the previous race, the 0-62 Sportsbet Blackbook Handicap (2028m), aboard Sixty Grand ($3.60 favourite) for the Cranbourne stable of Mick Price and Michael Kent junior.
Sixty Grand also came from well back, getting up in the last stride to beat the Will Clarken and Charlotte Sorby-trained Suit Of Wands ($7.50).
Saturday’s double took the Stokeses to 10 SA metro wins for the season, one clear of Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle.
Jake Toeroek shared the riding honours with Callow at Morphettville, bringing up the first leg of his double when last-start winner Golden Cloud ($5) won the Class 2 Spring Carnival at Morphettville Handicap (1200m). 
The David Jolly and Justin Potter-trained Golden Cloud swooped from well back to improve his record to three wins from six starts.
Toeroek’s second winner was $1.90 favourite Bred ’Em All, who also came from well off the pace to take the 0-68 Quayclean Handicap (1050m) first up for Richard and Chantelle Jolly.
Prestige well placed
Cranbourne trainer Matt Jenkins was rewarded for his decision to cross the border with first-starter Prestige Lucky for the Thomas Farms Maiden Plate (1050m) at Morphettville. 
Starting a $3.80 second favourite on the back of useful jumpout form at home, the four-year-old Lucky Vega gelding came from last under Jacob Opperman with a powerful finishing run to knock off even-money favourite and fellow debutant Confucious Flyer.
200 up for Taylor
The Morphettville meeting was a special one for expat Tasmanian apprentice Taylor Johnstone, who brought up her 200th winner with Winning All Round ($6) in the Class 1 Hahn Handicap (1522m) for Murray Bridge co-trainers Aaron Bain and Ned Taylor.
Bain described Johnstone as “a very good part of the team”, adding that he expects the genuine Winning All Round to win over longer distances in future.
The four-year-old Zousain gelding has had eight starts for two wins and five minor placings. His only failure came at his only middle-distance run, over 2000 metres at Mildura in May, but Bain said the horse had come to the end of his preparation that day.
Halidon hails Heather
Murray Bridge trainer Heather Lehmann went back to where it all began last Sunday when she won the Mindarie-Halidon Cup (1800m) with Kikorangi.
Ridden by Margaret Collett, the $4 favourite scored a convincing two-length win over his main market rival and fellow Murray Bridge gelding Longer Route, trained by Hazel Fertier. 
In a post-race interview Lehmann noted that her first race ride as an apprentice was at Mindarie-Halidon 45 years earlier.