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Gottashopearly has gained the title of King of the Cups at the North West harness racing circuit.
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The nine-year-old gelding secured the title after winning the Tamworth City Cup in 2019 and 2020 followed by the Armidale Cup earlier this month and the $13,000 Narrabri Cup on Sunday.
"I'm not sure if any other horse has done it but full credit to the horse," said trainer and reinsman Richard Williams, who races Gottashopearly with fiancée Ashleigh McKinnon.
"He has been such a good horse to us, and [we're] so grateful to have him back home."
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"We set him for these races, so we are very happy," Williams also said.
"I am just over the moon to have him - he has just been such a good horse and he deserves to be noted as a cups horse around the area. I am glad he got the job done."
In his next start, Gottashopearly will line up in barrier 11 in the third race at Menangle on Saturday night.
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There have been a number of driving doubles of late.
At Narrabri's Carnival of Cups meeting on Sunday, Moonbi's Dean Chapple took out two feature races - the John Dean Memorial, with Madam Pele, and the Santos Cup, with Asterism.
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Tamworth reinsman Anthony Varga also enjoyed driving a winning double at the Narrabri meeting - with Somebeachsomegift triumphing. He also trains the horse.
"I wasn't worried where I was sitting in the race as this horse has a good turn of foot for the last 400m," Varga said.
Somebeachsomegift had a 7.6m win over Sir Macador (Tom Ison). Mac Stubborn, who is also from Varga's stables, was 1.2m away in third place.
Varga then guided Sometingaboutlexy to a win for Narrabri trainer Jarred Hetherington, to gain his driving double. It was also back-to-back wins for Somethingaboutlexy.
"The way the mare won last week, I was very impressed, and I thought she was a better sit-and-sprint horse, which showed in her second win," he said.
Somethingaboutlexy had a head win over fellow Narrabri pacer Yellow Bow (Chris Shepherdson), with Fantasy Money (Brendan James) 8.4m away in third place.
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The Tamworth meeting on Wednesday saw Jemma Coney secure her winning double. Sal's Glee, who is trained by her father Greg, won the opening event, and then Stylish Joe, who is trained by Ty Robson, took out the Perc Verning Memorial.
Hunter Valley reinsman Blake Hughes enjoyed success behind the Tony Misse- trained My Kinda Justus and the Clayton Harmey-trained I'm Quick As Fire.
Murray Sullivan had his first win, since electing to make the move from Forbes to Tamworth, when Uptotrix triumphed.
Sullivan races Upotrix with wife Meg. Uptotrix had his third start since joining the stables, and the gelding picked up his first at race start No 10.
Sullivan, 34, is no stranger to the industry. He has trained 57 winners and driven 218 winners, but on this occasion he elected to engage Tamworth reinsman Tom Ison.
Uptotrix paid $21 in taking out the Vale Robert Smith Pace by 16.6m over Cobla Royale (Dean Chapple). Chaterup (Grace Panella) was a metre away in third place.
"He had the perfect run in the race," Ison said. "It is the first time I have driven the horse.
"I have always watched him and I like the horse - I was lucky enough to get the drive today. The horse had plenty left on the line."
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