That’s how the experts described Michael Plummer on Friday afternoon after he continued his hot streak at Bathurst’s Tyers Park on Friday afternoon, the Orange trainer picked up his fourth winner in the space of two weeks.

After watching Lily’s Little Girl, Stately Boy and Justice Honour salute over the last fortnight, Plummer watched on with glee as replacement jockey Alena Skerritt steered Royal Abbey to a stunning victory in the Town & Country Rural Supplies Benchmark 58 Handicap (2008 metres) on Friday.

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“It was a huge run, I couldn’t believe they’d put 40 to one on him,” Plummer said after the race, his charge eventually jumping at $12 odds.

“He’s been in really good form recently, had a massive run at Canberra last start and his form over 2000 metres or more has always been good, he’d just had one bad run at Dubbo.”

Huge is a fairly apt way to describe the seven-year-old’s run, which led to just his third career win from 49 starts and his second over the trip.

Jumping from barrier one Skerritt quickly maneuvered the gelding into a likable position, mid-pack on the rails.

Despite a frenetic early pace, which Plummer actually described as “ridiculous”, that’s where she kept the stayer until the back straight, where she pushed him not just to the front of the field but several lengths clear.

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“It was a pretty ridiculous pace but these staying races here (at Bathurst), they seem to get onto the back straight and just walk,” Plummer said.

The plan to push forward well before the home turn worked a treat, at the top of the straight Skerritt and Royal Abbey led by four lengths and although they were reined in somewhat the win was a comfortable one, the margin one-and-a-half lengths.

Scott Singleton’s Art of Defence ($5.50) ran second with Luke Pepper’s Keeper Girl ($3.60 favourite) rounding out the minor placings.

Royal Abbey was Plummer’s second chance at the Bathurst meeting, and he had a couple more left to go at time of publication, with Snappy Diamond running third the race before.

The $41 chance, with apprentice Katie Jenkinson on board in the gold and blue polka dot silks, jumped from barrier 12 in the 1408-metre Oak Tree Retirement Village Maiden Plate and fell way, way back in the field early.

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The eight-year-old trailed the pack by two lengths after just 100 metres, but clawed back within touching distance and held at the rear of the field.

Jenkinson skillfully maneuvered the mare onto the rails and found a lane down the inside on the straight too, storming home despite the sluggish start and finishing a little over a length behind winner Maria Victoria ($2 favourite), and a half-length behind second-placed Gaze Beyond ($26).

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