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Warrnambool's Lindsey Smith was the pick of the trainers, winning three races on the 10-race program.

Symon Wilde was the only other south-west trainer to score.

A May Racing Carnival winner was the ideal 70th birthday present for owner Philip Green.

Green, along with co-owner Peter Miller, celebrated High Ferocity's narrow win in a 1700m maiden plate on day two.

The pair has been friends for two decades after meeting in Port Fairy.

Green has a strong affiliation with the carnival.

"I race a lot of horses. I have won a number of races at Warrnambool," he said.

"I have been coming here for well over 20 years. It's a thrill, especially to win today on my 70th birthday."

The Melbourne-based Green and Miller, who splits his time between Horsham and Port Fairy, were thrilled with Declan Bates' ride on High Ferocity.

"We were favourites so we were confident but I was confident yesterday and we ran second with Strategic Fill," he said.

"We were lucky it was 1700m instead of 1600m."

Green said it was special co-owning horses with a close mate in Miller.

"I met Pete and Brenda in a restaurant and the association has gone on from there," he said.

"It's been a long friendship."

CHAMPION jockey Damien Oliver wants to add to his four TAB May Racing Carnival victories on the final day.

The three-time Melbourne Cup winner scored two wins on day two aboard the Lindsey Smith-trained Continuance and the Michael Kent and Mick Price-trained Sensationalisation.

He won aboard La Vina, for Smith, and New York Baby, for the Corstens stable, on Tuesday.

Oliver's personal record at the carnival is five winners in 1997.

He'll have a chance to break that on Thursday.

"I think I have four or five (runners)," he said.

"It's been a nice carnival for us. It's been hard over recent years here with the dominance of 'Weiry' (Darren Weir) and the local horses but it was nice to team up with Lindsey Smith and Mick Price, who I ride for a lot.

"He now has a stable down here too.

"It is a carnival the locals really set their horses for and they're hard to beat."

Lindsey Smith was smiling at the start of the day and his smile was wider by the end of the 10-race program.

The Warrnambool trainer took out race one, a 1400m hurdle, with apprentice jockey Lachlan Neindorf riding home Tintinwin.

The experienced Damien Oliver had the winning ride on Continuance in race five, a benchmark 70 handicap.

Smith rounded out the day with Corner Pocket, with Declan Bates onboard, winning the final race, another benchmark 70 handicap.

Neindorf took up a forward position with Tintinwin with Cranbourne galloper Cullier ahead of odds-on favourite, the Matty Williams-trained Almsgiver.

Cullier shot clear after rounding the home turn and looked the winner but Tintinwin ground him down to score by a half-head.

Smith stable foreman Shane Jackson thought Tintinwin was a realistic hope in the race despite the track being rated a heavy eight.

"He was up for the fight. I thought we were in a little bit of trouble when Cullier kicked but he really stuck the head out and battled," he said.

"We had a little bit of doubt about soft ground with him. A couple of weeks ago when we trialled him at Camperdown on soft ground he went through it very well. Lachie rode him and thought he handled it really well."

Neindorf said the Smith stable had been long-time supporters of him.

"I'm pleased to get this winner and there's no one else I'd rather do it for than Lindsey, Shane and the team.

"They've been great supporters of mine since I've been coming down and doing their work and since I've been their apprentice."

Neindorf was pleased with Tintinwin.

"Geez he was tough. I've been doing a bit of work on him and his jump out at Camperdown was pretty good," he said.

"He's a tough horse. Gave me a bit of a sore back last run but the blinkers seem to have switched him on and doing the trick with him.

"It is probably out of his racing style to be on the pace like that. My hands were sort of tied. I didn't want to go back with a few slow horses and have to get my way around and lose ground.

"But he jumped well and put himself there and had an easy time of it. I got attacked a bit early but he kicked and to his credit he came back and got them."

Smith led in a winning treble with nice type Corner Pocket winning the last race.

Bates swept down the middle of the track to hit the front on the $6.40 chance and held off Horsham galloper Knock Knock ($10, Dean Holland) to win by a short neck.

Smith was pleased with how the race panned out.

"Just looking at the day, we planned to go forward and get a head start on the favourite (Nikau Spur)," he said.

"Declan rode him perfectly. He's a good courageous horse. He's taken a long time to mature but any horse to win four straight is a good effort and I think that was quite a strong race.

"He'll go to town especially midweek now. He puts himself on pace, especially days like today. The favourite, we got him struggling at the 600 (metre mark) which is always handy."

Cranbourne trainer Richard Laming says the thrill of winning at the 'Bool never wanes.

He tasted victory with Sarodec in a benchmark 64 on Wednesday.

"It's always great to come here and it's always hard to win here so to get a win here is great," Laming said.

"There was a bit of a plan to come here with that horse and it all worked out well."

Laming praised jockey Dean Holland for his efforts.

"It was a very good ride, he rode to instructions," he said.

"The plan was to ride forward and get him in the rhythm and the horse did the rest."

VOLATILE Stock is proving himself to be a bargain for connections.

The three-year-old, trained at Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young's Cranbourne stables, produced a dominant effort to defeat the Patrick Ryan-trained Intense and Aaron Purcell's Banner Boy in a maiden plate on Wednesday.

His four-and-a-half length triumph more than justified his $20,000 price tag for connections.

"He was a cheap little buy this horse. He was passed in and we bought him. They're a good bunch of owners and they're here to see it," Young said.

"It's great to be back down here and hopefully we'll get down to the Whalers tonight.

"We thought we'd drop him back to the 1700 metre with the wet tracks - he's been running over 2000m.

"He was knocking at the door and we thought we'd get a wet track here which is what he needs being a Tavistock."

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