Roy Rogers enjoys career-best day after training four winners on the seven-race program at his home track

Albany trainer Roy Rogers had a career-best day, finishing with four winners last Friday in a dominant display on his home turf. At Percy Spencer Racecourse, Rogers, pictured above, was in white-hot form as he won four of the seven races on offer and leapt to six winners for the Great Southern season thus far. The day could not have started any better for Rogers as he won the first three races on the program before notching his fourth winner in race six. To cap off his stellar day, Rogers also had the trifecta in the first event and had a quinella in race two. The experienced trainer said it was great to notch four winners at a meeting for the first time. “It’s a real buzz— it’s every trainer’s dream to train as many winners on a program as they can,” he said. “I did say to the staff that we could possibly get four winners and we were probably a bit unlucky not to have five with Fangio. “I would like to thank the staff and owners. “You can’t train four winners without good people behind you. “It gives me a big boost. “We have some really nice horses that haven’t started yet this season and I have purchased a couple of nice tried horses. “I think we are in for a brilliant season.” A sharp turn of foot from exciting four-year-old Choose To Cruise helped him power over the top of stablemates Big Bada Boom and Count The Sessions in the opening race over 1500m. Choose To Cruise was midfield in running and charged to the line for apprentice Beaux Banovic-Edwards to win by a long neck. Magnuson Man finally broke his maiden status at start No.17, aided by a terrific front-running ride from Mitchell Pateman, to down stablemate Catchya Catchya by 3.1 lengths in race two. Rogers made it a winning treble after Modern Times produced a fighting victory in the GWN7 Handicap (1100m) for apprentice Carleen Hefel after sitting on speed and then holding off challenges from Shesapocket Rocket and Dynamite Bay in the final 100m. Kendel’s Mee Dad, who won three straight in Albany last season, was impressive in his racing return to complete Rogers’ successful day. After settling wide in a midfield position, the seven-year-old wound up down the middle of the track to grab Sauvegarde in the final few strides and go on to win the Iron Jack Handicap (1230m) by a neck. “He (Kendel’s Mee Dad) did it well, sitting three deep and toughed it out, then ran through the line strongly,” Rogers said. “Choose to Cruise will keep on improving and I think he can go places, he has a bright future.”