Dubbo's Jack Pay drives double at Parkes

The youngster from the well-known Dubbo racing family drove his first winning double at the Parkes track.

The day's opening event proved vastly different for the Pay brothers as Tom and Deal Breaker escaped with just a few cuts and bruises after a nasty fall shortly after the race began.

Jack, who was in the gig of Jacobs Thunder ($3.50), had actually gotten off to a roaring start before Tom's fall and race restart - causing the punters to pile in and shortening the quote by a couple of dollars.

Those punters were rewarded with a painless 8.3m win as the Michael Pay-trained gelding thundered to the lead once again from gate two and never looked in danger of being run down.

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It was the six-year-old American Ideal x Candyrama gelding's second career win in start 58 - and it was another special victory for the Pay father-and-son duo.

The pairing also got the chocolates in the Parkes Farm Centre Maiden Pace (1660m) with Nicky Brook ($7.50) part of a handy $2760 trifecta.

Pay took to the mare to two-out, two-back from the centre of the front row despite showing good gate speed, before peeling out on the back straight to win from three wide.

It completed Jack's first career double, and was thoroughly well deserved after a drive that exuded maturity, confidence and patience.

A bumper field had been assembled for the day's feature event, the $9000 Parkes/Dubbo Series Final, with Great Presence ($1.65 favourite) and Falcons ($4.60) the best backed runners.

It was the former however, having secured the gun draw of second on the front row, who would prove to be far too good for Dubbo trainer Barry Lew.

The three-year-gelding out of Bettors Delight has now won three of his four career starts at an average winning price of $1.45 to go with a third placing in Bathurst on debut.

With the in-form John O'Shea in the gig it was going to take something special to defeat Great Presence, and it almost came too - from Gemma Hewitt on Beta Jewell ($15).

Hewitt took off after O'Shea tried to bury the field at the top of the straight, but Beta Jewell couldn't quite reel in the winner, falling by just one length despite sitting three wide for most of the race, with Falcons ($4.60) rounding out the placings.

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