Travers steered Blessed Award to his first win in nine starts in the Schulz Family Maiden Plate (1400m) on Friday.

Blessed Award had had a couple of strong seconds this campaign and the $2.60 favourite sat just behind the leaders at Albury before Travers took the rails run to win by a length-and-a-half from Nick Olive's Deranged.

It was a more popular win with punters than that of the Wayne Carroll trained Tutus And Twirls ($51) who caused a boilover in the next, the Albury Brewhouse Maiden Plate (1400m) after Brodie Loy took off on a bold run from more than 800m out and held on for victory from Mitch Beer's Meladia.

Beer enjoyed a winning double with the impressive Branders Rule back to winning form with a huge finish to claim the class three handicap (1175m), while Baria broke its maiden earlier.

Fellow Albury trainer Ron Stubbs also had a double (both ridden ideally by Mathew Cahill) including a most impressive winner. The maiden win of Spritely Miss was just an entree to a dominant performance by Boss Lady Rocks in the benchmark 58 handicap over 900m, winning by three lengths.

It was the five-year-old mare's second win in four starts and Stubbs said he's considering sending her to an 1100m Highway Handicap in Sydney next weekend.

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