The five-year-old gelding, which won the Batemans Bay Cup in June, carried 61kg, 4.5kg more than the next heaviest horse, and edged John Peiti’s Brown Bob and Joe Cleary’s El Tornado by a length to claim the feature race.

It was a good outing for the Braidwood trainer, whose five-year-old mare Fourtenbob won the maiden plate over 1200 metres. 

“It was a good day for Aaron Clarke in particular, he’s had a really good record over the past few months,” Moruya Jockey Club manager Brian Cowden said. 

Moruya trainers won three of seven races with Chicka Pearson’s Shoulder Charge winning the first race, a class one and maiden plate over 1650m, by almost a length from Michael Gatty’s Southern Rush.

Pearson said the four-year-old gelding had performed well in his first campaign and was ready for a well-deserved spell.

“He’s been a good meal ticket so far,” Pearson said.

“He’s a baby, but a big strong fella.

“He’s got the will to win and a beautiful attitude.”

Roly Saxton rode Shoulder Charge to victory and Pearson said the jockey praised the horse’s power.

“Roly said he could feel the power underneath him,” Pearson said. 

John Law’s veteran stayer, Four Fortyfour, won the benchmark 56 handicap over 200 metres by almost seven lengths in its 90th start. 

Law said Four Fortyfour was a “remarkable old fella” who was used to racing and had no rivals in the race.

“Basically he was the only stayer in the race, the rest were doubtful at the distance,” Law said.

“The barrier boys were telling me they might have had to wake up to get him in the barriers.

“He’s (Four Fortyfour) a laidback kid; John Kissick got off him and said he could go round again at the same pace.”

Mark Macdonald’s Lavington Star found a good line towards the inside of the track and ran away from the field to win the class two handicap (1425m).

It was Lavington Star’s first win since May last year and Macdonald was pleased by its performance.

“It wasn’t too bad of a field, I was pretty happy with it and he (Jason Devrimol) rode her well,” Macdonald said.

Macdonald  will look to nominate her at Nowra in the coming week, depending on the weather.