It was a family affair at the Nyngan Jockey Club on Anzac Day as mother-daughter, trainer-jockey duo Sharon and Tiffany Jeffries combined for not one but two victories.
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It included the feature $12,000 Nyngan Cup - Benchmark 58 Handicap (1400 metres), where Tiffany guided $2.40 equal favourite Rehanaat to victory 2.75 lengths ahead of her nearest rivals.
The win kept intact the mare's perfect record at the track - the Hard Spun (USA) x El Ashb (Ireland) progeny also won the Duck Creek Picnic Cups in 2017 and 2018.
On Thursday Rehanaat tracked Austin to the home turn before racing clear to win by almost three lengths from The Frick (James Rogers, $8) and Austin (Chelsea Ings, $4.60).
A seven year old chestnut mare, Rehanaat is owned by Phil Easman from Parkes and has now won 11 races and been placed 9 times from 50 starts.
Sharon Jeffries is also enjoying an unbeaten run with Maria Elisa, the four-year-old mare winning at Tottenham Picnics, Warren (TAB) and Nyngan since coming from Victoria.
With the lead from the outset, Maria Elisa (Tiffany Jeffries, $3.80) won the Benchmark 58 Handicap (900m) at Nyngan by over five lengths from Vonnida (Rhonda Mangan, $3.60) and Cannizzaro (Stephane Joseph, $2.20 favourite).
The big crowd applauded enthusiastically when local trainer Rodney Robb and his wife Wendy Robb were awarded Life Memberships of the Nyngan Jockey Club, an honour very much deserved.
Fittingly, the Rodney Robb trained Late Return (Michael Heagney, $2 favourite) won the 1100m Nyngan Bowling Club Class 1 Handicap from Knight's Honour (Chelseas Ings, $17) and Ligny (Tiffany Jeffries, $4.40).
Late Return was backing up from winning at Bourke Picnics on Easter Sunday while the Connie Greig, Dubbo trained Felicette (Chelsea Ings, $3 favourite) also backed up to win at Nyngan after winning at Lightning Ridge on Easter Saturday when ridden by Rasit Yetimova.
Other winners at Nyngan were the Bryan Dixon, Gilgandra trained Flirtdeus (Chelsea Ings, $8) and Taking Charge (Rhiannon Payne, $4.20) trained at Orange by Michael Plummer.
