Weir double brings up 250 wins for season

Sunday 27 July 2014, 5:28pm

A winning double at the final metropolitan meeting of the season in Melbourne brought up another milestone for premiership-winning trainer Darren Weir.

Victories to Olivier and Red Corner at Sunday's Sandown meeting took Weir's season tally across Australia to 250.

His metropolitan haul in Victoria was 86, giving him his first Melbourne premiership by 22 from Peter Moody.

Michelle Payne, who brought up Weir's 250th win aboard Red Corner, said it had been an incredible achievement from the trainer.

"He is just a real horseman and you can just see when you work for him why he does so well," Payne said.

"It's just great to be a part of the team and to get his 250th winner."

Olivier, having his first start for Weir on Sunday, was ridden by Harry Coffey who broke a recent run of outs to land his 26th city win for the season.

While he admitted he had had a lean run in recent weeks, Coffey could not fault his season which ended with him on equal footing with Jye NcNeil in the Melbourne apprentices' standings behind Katelyn Mallyon.

"This is my first season of really riding at the top level week in, week out, and to finish where I have and ride as many winners as I have, it's a great result," Coffey said.

Mallyon capped her second title with victory on the Mick Kent-trained Vintage Lad at Sandown to take her tally to 31.

She won the premiership two seasons ago and took great satisfaction out of her second.

"It's very hard to win one, let alone two and be the first girl to do it," Mallyon said.

"It's a huge achievement and hopefully now I can go on and outride my claim. That's my next goal."

The 20-year-old has 19 wins left to outride her allowance with another season left in her apprenticeship.

– AAP

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