The 21-year-old apprentice, who claims 3kg, won aboard One Tin Soldier and Storm Ahead before adding a third leg with the Kevin Dixon-trained Wanda’s Girl in the JR Richards and Sons Class 1 & Maiden Plate (1600m).

Bolwell produced a beaming smile for the winning connections and media gathered.

“She loves the wet,” Bolwell said of Wanda’s Girl.

“My first treble.”

It followed her second double on a day where Kevin Dixon was full of praise for the young apprentice who is indentured to Sue Grills at Tamworth.

“She is riding well,” Dixon said.

“She (Wanda’s Girl) has to be ridden quiet so she will finish off.

“She jumped good today and Melanie held a good position in midfield.

“At the 600m she started to work her way through to third but I didn’t want her to go too early and she waited until they straightened. She’s a good girl coming back from a bad leg injury too.

“It was good to win for old Charlie and Nell (Worley) too. They live down between Quirindi and Willow Tree but can’t get about. They listen and watch on TV.”

It was Wanda’s Girl’s second race win at her 38th start.

Dixon has been working her sparingly, spending most of the time swimming here and being placed on an equine-massage machine.

“I haven’t been to the track with her for 10 or 12 weeks,” he said.

He’s now looking at a $10,000 Class 2 1600m at Gunnedah on October 8 for her.

Poet’s Trick meanwhile won the third race on Tuesday by a three-length margin.

Trainer Stephen Dixon remarked that Poet’s Trick was “a handy ol’ horse”, and that Bolwell “rode him an absolute treat today”.

“He loves the wet,” the trainer said of Poet’s Trick.

“The softer the better for him.”