Apprentice jockey Jackson Searle and Tamworth trainer Cody Morgan have combined to close out Monday's Tamworth Jockey Club meeting with a race-to-race double.
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In the process, the double handed Searle his second and third career wins in the saddle.
The first win of the day for the pair - in the Corey's Catering Class 1 Handicap (1200m) - was as easy as they come.
Levi's Storm rolled forward with Searle aboard, found the fence and the lead.
The three-year-old gelding stayed there and bolted in by three lengths ahead of the Stephen Meyer-trained Danza In The Dark.
"Jackson negated the gate really well," Morgan said on Sky Thoroughbred Central.
"Jackson, obviously, lives with us and we watched plenty of replays and I said 'if he comes across, don't pull the breaks. You're claiming three and four kilos, just let him roll' and he rode him perfect."
The ride on the pair's second winner, Casino Lord, in the TJC Welcomes Mitchell Robinson Benchmark 58 Handicap (1000m) couldn't have been more different.
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The gelding jumped last and Searle found a wall of horses in front of him as he entered the straight.
The four-kilogram-claiming apprentice initially peeled out, searching for a run down the outside, before ducking back in to find some clear running with his mount.
Casino Lord burst through to win by 0.74 lengths in front of the Carmen Murnane-trained Khitaamy.
Morgan rated it another good ride by the apprentice and said Searle has "a good future ahead of him".
"He's been here a couple weeks. He's just a good kid and he's heading in the right direction," Morgan said.
As for Levi's Storm and Casino Lord, their futures also look promising.
Morgan is aiming both horses at Highway Handicaps in the short term and thought Levi's Storm had the potential to contest the 2022 edition of the Country Championships.
"We'll try and get him straight to a highway and then I think he's more of a Country Championships horse, in 12 months, than a Kosciuszko horse [this year]," Morgan said.
"I just feel at the 1400m he'll be better again than 1200m."
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