Mongolian Brave, Torsiton and Pushkar provide Tim Donnelly with winning treble at Wagga

Donnelly enjoyed his first treble since 2012 as all three of the runners he started at the meeting saluted on Wagga picnic race day.

Donnelly started the day with the well-backed Mongolian Brave ($1.90) winning on debut in the GIO Wagga Maiden Plate (1000m).

The well-bred Torsiton ($2.05) won well in the Goodrop Oils Maiden Handicap (1200m), before Pushkar completed the big day with victory in the Fabstock Benchmark 50 Handicap (1200m).

Mongolian Brave was an $80,000 purchase at last year's NZB Ready To Run Sale and led throughout to score by a length and a quarter.

Mongolian Brave proved to be Mongolian Khan's first winner as a sire and Donnelly believes the three-year-old has a bright future.

"Yeah he has. He's going for a spell now," Donnelly revealed.

"He's going to get 2000 metres eventually. I brought him at the ready to runs at New Zealand last year.

"I like him as horse, he can still do things wrong, he's very immature, he's a 15^th of November foal so he's still a baby and really hasn't turned three yet.

"I just wanted to give him one run, give him a good experience and then go out and mature. He's going to make a nice horse."

As much as $5 was bet about Mongolian Brave with TAB after a quiet trial at Wagga last month and Donnelly was happy to get the cash with first-up go.

"Run them in the weakest race possible and make a good thing of them," he said.

Torsiton, owned by Sandy Tait and Jill Nivison, is a half sister to VRC Derby favourite Cherry Tortoni. Donnelly trained the dam, Tortoni, who won her only race at this corresponding meeting back in 2013.

Toriston was only having her second start for Donnelly, after beginning her career with John Thompson in Sydney.

"She's been crying out for a dry track," he said.

"Because she had six starts before I got her, she was getting balloted out of races. I trialled her and Kayla said she's hopeless in the wet. The next race I put her in was heavy and I couldn't not run her. I knew she couldn't win but we just had to run her. Kayla said the run was really good, she's just hopeless in the wet, find a dry track.

"I've had her in twice since and drew bad barriers both times and then scratched her. She drew well the other day and said she'd just win."

Donnelly believes she has a future, but not as a stayer like her little brother.

"Previously they trained her as a stayer, because she's a half to Cherry Tortoni," he said.

"I trained the mother and she won a 1000 metre race. She wouldn't have run past 1200. She was a dead set sprinter.

"(Toriston's) definitely a sprinter, she won't stay at all, she's a real sprinter. 1200 might even pull her up.

"She's got a bit of scope about her, she'll win more races."

Pushkar's victory late in the day provided Tait and Nivison with a winning double of their own.

Donnelly described it as well-deserved win as the four-year-old took his record to two wins from 14 starts.

"He's honest. He never runs a bad race, really," he said.

"He got on the inside at his previous start, which was the worst place to be and then couldn't get out. He wasn't beaten far.

"A drop in grade, came in well with the claim, he was well suited. He's a good wet tracker and he's honest on a dry track."

Heni Ede rode Pushkar to victory, the second of a winning double for her after she rode My Solaki ($2.15) to victory earlier in the day for Wagga trainer George Dimitropoulos.

The Todd Smart-trained Hallo Poppet ($10) claimed an upset in the Law Advice Wagga Picnic Cup (2000m).

It was the second leg of a winning double for Mathew Cahill.

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