Armidale harness racing trainer Les Enks rewarded for effort

In producing a 19-metre win, Neville Shannon captured the Stockman's Supplies Pace and secured Enks his 100th career win as a trainer.

Dean Chapple handled the reins behind Neville Shannon.

"I remembered Les was sitting on 99 training wins last week and forgot all about it until the win today [Thursday]," Chapple said.

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"So congratulations to Les, as he has been whacking away in the industry for a while now. It is a good day."

Chapple guided the six-year-old Million Dollar Cam gelding straight to the lead from the three barrier as $3.20 race favourite.

"The horse has not had a win since I won on him at Armidale," Chapple said.

"He went really good that day and he looked like being a nice Golden Guitar horse a couple of seasons ago.

"But Les has got him going well again and he hasn't been out in front for a while."

Neville Shannon recorded his last win on his home track of Armidale back in May 2021.

"The horse showed his old form today [Thursday] and really got aggressive to find the line - he just kept running," Chapple said.

Neville Shannon increased his race tempo from the 800m to come away for a win over Pocket More For Less (Molly Ison). Freddies Delight (Michael Grima) was another 1.5m away in third place.

Neville Shannon produced a mile rate of 1min 57.9sec for 1609m.

The gelding has now had 81 race starts for seven wins and 11 minor placings.

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