Ruakaka trainers Chris Gibbs and Michelle Bradley were an unstoppable force at their home track this afternoon, winning more than half of the nine races on the programme.

With Bradley on holiday and Gibbs taking sole charge, the team had 29 starters for five wins, five seconds and four thirds.

Group Two winner Hello It’s Me kicked off the locals’ day on a winning note, then Ceecee Signor, Not Usual Current, Amazing Az and Toy Kingdom followed suit.

First-starter Ceecee Signor landed a $23 upset in the Harcourts High Tea September 1 Maiden. Co-bred and part-owned by the now Singapore-based Donna Logan, the Coats Choice gelding is out of a half-sister to former stable star El Duce.

Not Usual Current led all the way for an impressive three-length win in the Tavistock at Cambridge Stud 3YO, clocking 59.07 seconds for the 1000 metres. The Kuroshio colt had two starts last season for a debut placing and an eighth behind Sword Of Osman in the Gr. 1 Sistema Stakes at Ellerslie.

Amazing Az has always been held in high regard by the stable and was a fast-finishing placegetter in his previous two starts. He broke through today at his third attempt, racing away to beat stablemate Tavirose by two and a quarter lengths.

Toy Kingdom rounded out the day in style with a three-quarter-length defeat of O’Guy in the Harcourts Daffodil Raceday September 1 Rating 65.

A daughter of the Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom, she was bought for A$200,000 as a weanling by owner Mark Treweek. She has now had five starts for two wins and two placings.

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