Maitland father and son Darren and Brad Elder had a night out at the Tamworth harness meeting on Wednesday night.
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Darren Elder picked up a training double, and drove one winner, whilst son Brad drove three winners.
He also picked up a second behind dad Darren, something that Elder senior was pretty happy about.
“Showed him how it is done,” he joked about his win with Sevens Dollar, who he trains and also drove to her first career win.
“I get pushed to the back now as Brad is doing so well – he has about 400 drives a year and now I’m struggling to get two a month.”
Sevens Dollar is bred and raced by the Gardner family at Gunnedah.
They also own the Dam, - Second Dollar, who had 20 career wins and 17 placings amassing $222,760 dollars in prizemoney.
“It has been a pretty good ride for us all,” Elder, who also trained and drove Second Dollar in her races, said.
“This one (Sevens Dollar) is showing some promise.”
“She has got all the writing on the wall to be a good one.”
“The mother was exceptional and we have got our fingers crossed that she will turn out the same – she had speed and strength – she was unreal.”
At only her fourth career start, Sevens Dollar raced three wide for a full lap before pulling away from the field in the home straight for a 20m win over Brad’s The Love Bandit.
Wanderin Man (Lola Weidemann) was third another half neck away
“I was pretty confident even though I was wide – that is one thing she has picked up from her mother is a little bit of toughness,” Elder said.
Sevens Dollar will be another contender pencilled in for the upcoming Starmaker heat and final series at Tamworth in January.
The father and son then combined to win the Happy New Year from Tamworth HRC Pace with Justajolt. With Brad in the spider, Justajolt had a 2m win over Pure Laughter (Danny Mackney) with Dalacos Empress 24m away third.
“My daughter Melanie has been working him and she told us to keep him going,” Darren said of Justajolt.
It was Brad’s last win of the night after driving last start winner Anna Bay Al -trained by Jarred Hetherington - to a 34m win in the Thankyou To Our 2017 Volunteer Pace.
He then came out in the following race to take the reins behind Red Rocker for Queensland trainer Ricky Gordon in The Pub Group Gold Nugget January 17 Pace
“The second quarter was the best thing for us – it sorted most of them out,” he said.