As an Ambassador for Team Teal, Tamworth reinswoman Jemma Coney was certainly championing the cause on Saturday night at the Tamworth harness meeting.
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Coney drove two winners on the program which saw $1,000 go into the kitty for the Team Teal Ovarian Cancer Research Campaign.
"It is a good thing to be involved in and I feel privileged to raise that amount of money on my first night. That is really good," Coney said.
For the past six years reinswomen involved in the industry have been donning their teal pants for the month of February with each winner they drive seeing $400 donated to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.
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Coney said she was a little surprised when asked to be an ambassador and in addition to the teal pants the 19-year old will also wear silks displaying the Team Teal logo.
With a very muddy track at Tamworth on Saturday night Coney had to give her colours a little "soak" the next morning.
"The colours are a bit dirty and they will need a good soak as I have a quick turnaround and racing at Newcastle on Monday afternoon," she said.
The two winning drives for Coney came courtesy of her own two runners in Britney Jane and Watchful Lady who won the Joan Bullock Memorial, the feature race for the meeting.
"It was good to have the Bullock family on track and to see Travis (son) competing in the race as well," she said.
"We (Watchful Lady) had the best run in the race being four back on the outside running line when the speed was on."
"She has got a good turn of foot and when I got out, I wasn't really expecting to win."
Coney said it wasn't her plan to go four wide.
"I was going to sit back and sprint but I got a good cart up into the race," she said.
"For her to do what she did in the race and then to find the line was really good."
"They were running some solid times for how the track was and it was setting it up for the back runners."
With the John Enks trained Groovy Shannon (Tom Ison) leading the field, Watchful Lady had a three-wide trail into the race before Coney continued on the run around the field as the bell sounded for the final lap.
Watchful Lady then matched it stride for stride down the home straight with last start winner Brie from the Dean Chapple stables before going on for the win.
Watchful Lady held a 3.2 metre win over Brie (Dean Chapple) with race favourite Groovy Shannon (Tom Ison) 19.8 metres away third and a mile rate of 2.01.7 on a heavy track.
It made it back-to-back wins for Coney, who had secured the race before - the PKF Chartered Accountants Tamworth Pace - with Britney Jane.
Both winners were trained by her father Greg.
"Dad does a good job with both the horses," Coney added.
