The Glen Innes horseman celebrated his sixth winner in the space of a eight days when Carry Me Gee Gee raced away with the $11,000 Deepwater Cup (1400m) on Saturday.

Carry Me Gee Gee ($2.50fav) went one better than his runner-up effort in the Glen Innes Cup seven days earlier, downing Amajill by a half-length.

The victory made it six winners from his past 10 starters, highlighted by two Cup victories at Deepwater and his home track.

“I can’t remember having a run like this, not only have we won six races, but I think only one runner has been unplaced,” Cunningham told The Leader.

Carry Me Gee Gee yielded Cunningham’s first win in the race as a trainer, but he had previously won the Deepwater Cup as a jockey.

“Don’t ask me the year because I can’t remember, but it was during the 1970s,” he said.

The heavy track suited Carry Me Gee Gee, being a son of Great Britain-bred stallion Carry The Flag with Cunningham rapt at the way his charge finished the race under jockey Matt Paget.

“He’s a get back horse, but he got through the heaviest part of the track near the 800m mark and started to make his run,” he said.

“They (Carry Me Gee Gee and Amajill) had a bit of a duel before my bloke got the upper hand in the last 50m.”

Tamworth trainer Lesley Jeffries won a race thanks to Champagne Warrior, while Armidale’s Stirling Osland (Affiliated) and Inverell’s Allan Foran (Mourabie) also prepared winners.