Simpkins scored a winning treble, including a quinella, at the five-race non-TAB meeting.

Now with stables at Muswellbrook, Simpkins started her career at Gilgandra where her father Bryan Dixon is a successful trainer.

Making the day even more memorable was the fact her partner Billy Cray rode the three winners; Candy Pants, Superel and Aisle Six.

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Simpkins and supporters were cheering two horses as stablemates Candy Pants and Twittersphere fought out the finish of the Craigmoor Wines Maiden Plate (1100m).

Bella Days and Enfermeria led the field before Candy Pants (Cray, $6) swooped on the outside from well back to beat Twittersphere (Ken Dunbar, $13) by a long-head, with What An Effort (Tiffany Jeffries, $10) finishing third.

"I wanted to ride Twittersphere but Krissie thought Candy Pants was the best chance so she is obviously a better judge than me," Cray joked.

Beau Zariz (Jake Pracey-Holmes,$18) led until the latter stages of the XXXX Gold Class 1 Handicap (1200m) but was overhauled and beaten by nearly two lengths by the Simpkins-trained Superel (Cray, $4.40) while the third placed My Shiromi (Tony Cavallo, $4) raced close to the lead from the outset.

Third leg of the Simpkins and Cray treble came in the G C Cox Plate Benchmark 50 Handicap (1600m) with Aisle Six ($8). A strong finish secured the win Winter Moon (Andrew Banks, $16), which had gone to the lead over The Browzer in the straight.

Other winners were the Paul Theobald-trained Tiger King ($5) Gooree Park Thoroughbreds Maiden Plate (1100m) and the David Smith-trained The Scotsman ($2.50 favourite) in the Pink Up Mudgee Benchmark 50 Handicap (1400m).

Tiger King was the first winner in some time for jockey Andrew Banks.

Banks lives in one of the Sydney suburbs which was placed in hard lock down during the pandemic and until Queanbeyan and Mudgee last week he had not ridden in a race or been able to ride track work since July.

"I kept fit by running every day and working out in the gym in my shed but it has been a long wait to get back to the races," he said.

A slender leader turning for home on Saturday, Tiger King held on to beat Rebate (Rachael Murray, $8) by a neck with Moculta Warrior (Pracey-Holmes, $26) a fast finishing third.

Owned by great supporters of the Mudgee club Tony Rayner and John Fleming and trained at Mudgee by Smith, The Scotsman had a good run third behind Arctic Rover and My Money Tree and finished best to score by over two lengths from Zamali (Kath Bell-Potomac, $4) and Regina Margherita (Banks, $21).

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