Fresh from his first highway win in 12 months, Cody Morgan bookended Monday's Tamworth meeting to celebrate a home track double.
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Rubic Honour and Anethole continued a successful couple of days for the Tamworth trainer after Yulong Base's win at Rosehill.
Both are new additions to Morgan's stables.
Rubic Honour made it a perfect start to the day by taking out the opening race in what was only the four-year old's second run for the stables.
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Coming off a first-up second at Scone earlier in the month, Morgan said it was a "really good run" from the gelding in what was a "really strong maiden".
"I wasn't as confident as the bookmakers were of him winning (he was a $2.30 favourite)," he said.
"(But) He won with authority."
Morgan is looking at probably one more run "up this way" for him before taking him down to Sydney.
"We're hoping that he can measure up to be highway horse down the track," he said.
Anethole will meanwhile "head straight to Sydney" probably for a mid-week race initially.
"To be eligible for a highway race you have to have had three runs for a trainer," Morgan explained.
Monday was only the gelding's first start for him.
"He went really well. He was probably the most impressive out of the two," he said.
The four-year old did look a bit boxed in at one stage in the straight but managed to find a hole and weave his way through for a length win in the last.
"I was relatively confident if he got out he'd pretty hard to beat," Morgan said.
"I knew how well he'd worked leading in, and I knew he had a really good turn of foot."
He was also happy with Brave Enough's effort in finishing fourth.
Morgan then watched his Kosciuszko hopeful Ligulate trial ahead of a start at Tamworth - all things going well - in a couple of weeks.
"He trialled really nice, I'm really happy with him," he said.
He admitted to starting to "get a bit nervous now" with the 14 successful ticket holders to be drawn on September 9.
It was a good day for the Morgan clan with brother Luke's Stashes winning the third.
