The Cowra-based hoop took out the first two events of the day before finishing the meet with a winning treble.

In the day’s second event, Leading Edge Computers Dubbo Maiden Plate (1400m), Cahill and the Barry Molly trained Flux Capacitor avoided some carnage midway through and scored with ease.

Fellw Cowra jockey Michael Travers spent the night in hospital with three broken ribs after a three-horse fall which marred the event.

Travers, on board David Smith’s Pamela Noreen, got tangled up with two other horses – Lee Nunn’s mare Te Ropa Lilly and Mark Milton’s four-year-old Raised Ready – around 400 metres in.

Fellow hoops Chris Williams and Chelsea Ings were both caught up in the tumble, but they walked away from the incident and took up the rest of their rides on the day.

All three horses finished the race riderless and uninjured. 

Cahill passed on his best wishes to Travers after the event and said he was pleased to be out in front on what was a wet and cloudy Derby Day.

“I didn’t (get caught up in it), I went to the front. I drew a wide barrier and had plenty of speed so we raced to the lead,” Cahill said.

“I heard a few yells behind me but I wasn’t sure what happened until I pulled up.

The Molloy trained four-year-old gelding broken his maiden in style, blitzing the start before finding the rail and setting the pace.

Looking very comfortable rounding the turn, Flux Capacitor ($5.50) turned on the after burners on the home straight to win by three lengths from A Martin Placepick ($4.60) and pre-race favourite Rawson Crossing ($4.40), a nose separating those two in second and third.

“He’s run second in his last two starts, he’s a consistent horse and deserved to win,” Cahill said, riding In Good Time to victory in the first as well.

“We had a wide barrier but he has plenty of speed, he rolled to the front and once he got there they left him alone and he had a nice easy run.

“He was strong all the way to the line.”

Cahill also saluted in the Castlereagh Hotel Benchmark 55 Handicap (1400m), ensuring pre-race favourite Turcotte ($3.60) didn’t disappoint.

The Cameron Crockett-trained four-year-old led for the bulk of the journey and recorded win number two by a comfortable three-quarters-of-a-length from Handful Of Aces ($12) and Whispadah ($31).