Trainer Michael Pitman achieved a personal best six wins in a day at the Waikouaiti Racing Club meeting on Saturday.
''I have had five wins in a day a few times but I never thought I could win six,'' Pitman said.
''Who would have thought I would do it without Coup Align winning.''
He has won 41 races this season, two behind premiership leader Lisa Latta,
who had two wins at Hastings on Saturday and one at the Wairarapa meeting yesterday.
Pitman has been training for 31 years. He saddled his first winner, Ben Ahee, at Hokitika in November 1979.
The stable was successful with Peyow Peyow (Waikouaiti Cup), Conscious Mistake, O'Canny, Trademark, Sub Prime and Eleanor Coup on Saturday.
He started 25 horses in nine races on the 10-race card and also collected 12 minor placings.
He produced the first four home in the Waikouaiti Cup.
A family thread ran through the winners.
Peyow Peyow, who repeated his Waikouaiti Cup win of two years ago, is raced by Pitman's wife, Diane, and 22-year-old son, Matt.
Peyow Peyow was ridden by Brittany Moore, partner of Matt.
The win rewarded the faith of his owners. They exercised a $25,000 right of purchase on the horse at the end of the 2009 season when the lessor declined to renew the lease.
Conscious Mistake is raced by Pitman's brother, John, of Christchurch.
Conscious Mistake strengthened the hand of Pitman for the southern guineas races.
Pitman said he could have as many as four runners in contention for the Gore, Dunedin and Southland Guineas. The others are Milo, Miss Maximuss and Coup Tagonal.
He is considering a start for his smart 3yr-old filly, Aluminium Bikerack, in the weight-for-age Miss Scenicland Stakes (1645m) at Hokitika on January 12. She would carry 51kg.
Jamie Bullard, who rode Conscious Mistake on Saturday, has retained the mount in the Gore Guineas.
Conscious Mistake won a race for 2yr-olds Ashburton in March and he has won twice in four starts.
One of the few progeny of Fastnet Rock in New Zealand, he is the first foal of Sutology, who won the Matriach Stakes at Flemington.
Conscious Mistake was bred by John Pitman.
He also raced Sutology, who is in foal to High Chaparral.
She is also the dam of a yearling colt by Holy Roman Emperor and a filly foal by Henry The Navigator.
Michael Pitman races Sub Prime on lease and he is also in the ownership of O'Canny.
Coup Align, a hot favourite in the open 1250m, was cut back to fourth after leading under 61kg.
O'Cartier won comfortably.
''The dead track tripped him,'' Lisa Allpress, the rider of Coup Align, said.
Pitman was not disappointed.
''He couldn't beat O'Cartier giving him 6kg. He will carry on to the Telegraph where he drops to 56kg,'' he said.
• Onetoomany gave owners Lenny Faber (the trainer) and Calvin Fisher a change of fortune with a maiden win on Saturday.
Their good galloper, The Hand Of Faith, sustained leg injuries when racing on a rain-affected track at Riccarton last month.
''He [The Hand Of Faith] knocked himself about and he will be swimming and walking for a few weeks,'' Faber said.
Faber and Fisher race Onetoomany with Rob Hair, of Christchurch.
The gelding is the first racing venture for Hair.
Onetoomany was bought out of the Tony Pike stable two months ago. The Stravinsky 5yr-old was having his third start from new quarters.
