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Young driver Benjamin Butcher won the three-year-old IRT Harness Jewels pace not once but twice with B D Joe.

Mark Purdon wasn’t quite certain which was bigger, Akuta’s incredible ten-length IRT Jewels win or the fright the star colt gave him at the start of the race.

It was a proud moment for the Edmonds-Dunn households after Five Wise Men’s win in the Group One Mitre 10 3YO Ruby (1609m) at Cambridge Raceway on Sunday.

Stunning, sensational, superb, simply amazing.

She may have been bred to pace, but Double Delight is showing plenty of class as a trotter.

John Dunn’s IRT Harness Jewels day didn’t start exactly how he thought it would but that all changed just under two minutes later.

Many were thinking the IRT Harness Jewels had kept the best to last - the Civtec 4YO Emerald - and it was South Coast Arden who was brilliant in taking it out in 1:51.

I See Fire may have missed out on an IRT Harness Jewels start but he suggested there could be more group ones coming up later in his career when winning at Alexandra Park on Friday night.

Sense Of Occasion has been knocking on the door for a win for some time, and it finally opened at Addington Raceway on Thursday night.