Big day at Trentham for our stables

TOP DAY: In an assault on Trentham on Saturday, Wairarapa stables, including the Gerald Innes (pictured) stable, Opaki , won five of nine races.PHOTO/FILE

Wairarapa stables mounted one of the district's most successful raids ever on Trentham racecourse on Saturday, winning five of the nine races, including both feature flat events.

The coveted Whyte Handicap fell to near-rank outsider Share The Blame from the Gerald Innes stable at Opaki, in the hands of apprentice Nivesh Teeluck, winning in a virtual canter and returning a win dividend of $32.40.

Making the win even sweeter was the fact the runner-up was Liv'n Paradise, trained at Opaki by Roger Allen.

The two helped set up a trifecta paying $7075.

Two races prior Kylie Little had produced the hardy wet tracker Sea Eagle to win the other flat feature, the Parliamentary Handicap.

Veteran South Island jockey Chris Johnson got the drop on the opposition bringing Sea Eagle home by better than five lengths to pay $11.40 on the win machine.

The day started well for Wairarapa when Eric The Viking led all the way to win the opening race, a maiden steeplechase giving Tauherenikau trainer Aaron Bidlake his first ever jumps winner.

Bidlake followed that up with a third placing in race 2, a maiden hurdle, with Evasive Tracy.

Flint, trained at Opaki by part-owner Herb Renall, won race 4 chalking up a hat-trick of successive wins.

The galloper just got home in a head bobbing finish in the hands of Aimee Taylor.

Tauherenikau trainer James Phillips chimed in to win the very next race with his tongue-twisting named galloper Zedeedudadeeko.

In stakes the Wairarapa runners brought home $65,370.