Creighton edges closer to 50 wins

Local jockey Edward Creighton edged closer to 50 wins for the 2013-14 season after notching a double in Kalgoorlie on Sunday.

Creighton has enjoyed a breakthrough season here in WA and has 46 wins to his name after booting home Wind Spirit and Nacho at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club.

The Irishman overcame a wide draw with Wind Spirit, trained by Peter Fernie, and came from seventh on the turn to win by three-quarters of a length in the Timpano Legal Pty Ltd Maiden (1400m).

His second win came in the MBL Accounting Handicap (1300m) aboard Nacho, also trained by Fernie, the three-year-old finishing the better of his rivals in the straight for Creighton to eventually win by three-quarters of a length.

Creighton was unlucky not to claim a treble after finishing second by a neck on Dear Dorothy in the final race on the card and earlier collecting a third on Miss Corningstone.

The 31-year-old sits second in the KBRC jockeys' premiership with 13 wins, behind boom apprentice Emma Stent (21 wins).

Fellow Albany jockey Natasha Faithfull and talented apprentice Lucy Warwick are equal third in the premiership, with nine wins apiece.

Meanwhile, promising four-year-old Dream Lifter won in his first start for Bullsbrook trainer Jim Taylor after being transferred from the stables of Albany trainer Paul Hunter.

The Danehill Express gelding sat on the speed for jockey Mitchell Pateman in the Ascend Sales Trophies Handicap (1200m) before kicking clear in the straight to down Rusty Peaches by a length.

Hunter said they had left the talented galloper in Perth after his previous start, where he finished seventh behind Celebrity Miss.

"The owners wanted him up in town and the (sand) tracks were getting a bit firm down here, so we decided it would be better off leaving him with Jimmy," he said.

"He won quite good (on Saturday) and seems to be in good order."

The gelding had eight starts for Hunter for three wins and three minor placings and had recently overcome feet problems.

Hunter's daughter, apprentice jockey Casey, will spend the next few weeks with metropolitan trainer Dan Morton to help her development.

"She has gone to Danny Morton's for six to eight weeks at this stage," he said.

"She will ride a fair bit of trackwork there."

Casey has been a regular on the North West circuits this season where she has racked up six wins, including a dominant eight-length win aboard Fa'em in Port Hedland on Sunday.