Fabulous five to start new year for David Kennedy

Kennedy trained the first five winners on Leeton's Carnival of Cups meeting on Saturday, and some were at big prices.

Couldnt Recommend ($1.35 fav) kicked things off with an all-the-way victory before All Good ($41) took out the first of the two lucrative finals on the night.

The show rolled on with Im So Needy ($1.70 fav) bringing up her first career win at start seven before Louthario ($9) rattled home to provide reinsman Rodney Coelli with a double.

The effort already has Coelli halfway to the total of wins he scored last year.

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After recently making the shift to work with Kennedy and Jackson Painting, Coelli was thrilled with how the new year started for the team.

"It was good to pick up the two drives and to win the two finals is an extra bonus," Coelli said.

"I actually got a nice trip on both of them and I actually can't believe the price of the first one (All Good). He was $1.20 last week but was probably a little under done but this time at a decent price he did the job.

"He went really good and the other was just after a little luck but everything just opened up at the right time in the race.

"He put his head out at the right time to get there.

"It was really good."

Despite a slow beginning, Punt Away ($2.80 fav) then completed the big night for the Euroley team in the Kriden Park Ladies Invitational Race.

Punt Away got left behind in the score up but Amanda Dean was able to recover.

The mare has now five won eight starts since coming to Australia.

After winning the first five races on the card, the hot streak came to an end in the Leeton Pacers Cup as Nerano stormed away from his rivals.

Painting, who drove the other two winners, then finished fifth with Braedos Lad in the Leeton Pacers Cup and the stable did not have a representative in the last of the seven races.

The five wins came after Kennedy and Painting, who won the Southwest and Riverina trainers and drivers premierships respectively, finished off a big season with a double at Albury on New Year's Eve.