SHE jokes her stable is full of horses that are "crazy or not much good", but that did not stop Amanda Turnbull from steering five winners at Sunday's Dubbo Harness Racing Club meeting.
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It is remarkably the 15th time in The Lagoon driver's career that she has steered five or more winners at a meeting and the fifth time she has done so at Dubbo.
She did it the first time in August 2012, repeated her Dubbo effort eight months later and also pulled off the feat in April 2017 and 2018.
On Sunday all of her winning drives came aboard favourites - Ranieri ($1.60) and Tact Bess ($1.55) from her own stable, Monsieur Darcy ($1.95) for Ben Settree, the Grant Jones trained Magical Times ($1.85) and Kevin Medlyn's Caribbean Jack ($3).
"It was good to do it again," Turnbull said.
"I thought a couple of them were good chances, but I didn't know much about some of the others I was on.
"It's nice to get that little pick up at the minute, I'm having a bit of trouble with Menangle. To do it there is nice, we like going out there and it's good atmosphere.
"It lifts you up again, you can get a bit tired, but when you do something like that it helps you out a lot."
Turnbull rated her win aboard Tact Bess, a five-year-old Auckland Reactor mare in the Club Dubbo Under 23 Award Pace (1,720 metres) as the pick of her drives.
She sat sixth on the bell before Turnbull worked three wide down the back straight.
Tact Bess took the lead through a 30 seconds third quarter and went on to win by 8.5m in a 1:57.6 mile rate. It was the eighth victory of her 23-start career.
"She's got mixed form, she can put in a good one and put in a bad one, but she put in a good one yesterday [Sunday] thank God," Turnbull said.
"That [mile rate] was the most impressive thing because they weren't running much time all day.
"We got her a fair while ago, she can be a bit silly and wants to go flat out the whole way and be a race horse. But she's got the ability.
"At the moment that's all my team is - crazy or not much good - so I just have to put up with it."
Turnbull was also impress with the effort of Magical Times in winning his HRNSW Reward Series Heat (1,720m) in emphatic fashion.
It was the first time she had driven the five-year-old, but hopes she will get to sit in the gig behind him again come the final.
"That one of Grant Jones', Magical Times, he won by 20 metres, so he went pretty good too," she said.
"He's got a lot of tricks, he's not that easy to drive and Grant said he's not that easy to train either, but he if goes like he did [on Sunday] he'll be right."
