Group 1-winning harness trainer Shane Sanderson had his second gallops winner at Albury last Friday, taking the benchmark 66 over 1500 metres with $4 favourite Annotate.
 Seymour-based Sanderson had his first thoroughbred starter at Wangaratta on February 8.
He’s now had 18 starters for two wins and two seconds, with Annotate providing both wins and one of the seconds in four starts for Sanderson.
The Justify gelding, who scored comfortably last Friday with Jake Duffy aboard, began his career under Ciaron Maher but never started for him.
He later had stints with Anthony Chibnall and Hanna Powell, winning one race for each.
Annotate was one of five winners at Albury for trainers from the district.
Kilmore’s Jody Thompson took out the 1600-metre Class 1 with $21 chance Ruscello, formerly trained by Aaron Purcell at Warrnambool. It was the gelding’s second start for Thompson and Hannah Edgley was the winning rider. 
The open 1175-metre handicap went to another $21 chance, Zethus, an eight-year-old Exceed And Excel gelding trained at Seymour by Peter Smith and ridden by apprentice Cassidy Hill.
Zethus was previously trained by James Cummings and later Stephen Brown. Interestingly, all three of his wins for Smith have come at Albury.  
Hill made it a running double in the benchmark 58 over 900 metres, scoring on Hazardous ($2.25 favourite) for Wangaratta’s Craig Weeding.  
Hazardous is a three-year-old Redente filly who is now unbeaten from two starts.   
Another apprentice, Brittany Button, won the $50,000 Super Maiden Plate (1175m) on Magic Royal for Wodonga’s David O’Prey.  
Sweet spot
A lucrative double at last Saturday’s Rosehill meeting capped a big Melbourne Cup week for Ben, Will and J.D. Hayes’s Lindsay Park stable at Euroa.
The brothers won the listed $1 million Golden Gift (1100m) for two-year-olds with Act Up, then had first (Evaporate) and third (Plymouth) in the Group 3 $2 million Five Diamonds (1800m) for five-year-olds. Nash Rawiller rode both winners.
“We do love pinching the Sydney prizemoney,” Will Hayes said after the $1.94 million raid. “We feel like we’re strategic in where we’re placed at Euroa and it’s not too hard to get to Sydney for these nice races.”
The brothers’ winner at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day, Ranarsson in the listed Amanda Elliott for three-year-olds, also came from their Euroa base.