The battle for this season's state driver's premiership is hotting up with only three wins separating brothers Gareth and Todd Rattray with 10 harness racing meetings remaining.
Gareth is chasing his 11th title while Todd is trying to win his first.
Heading into last Friday night's meeting in Devonport Gareth held a five-win advantage over his younger brother but Todd's four-win haul doubled Gareth's take to reduce the margin to only three.
Todd partnered the Ben Yole-trained Making My Mark to a comfortable win in Devonport on Friday night but it was in Hobart that he excelled.
In Hobart he snared a driving treble but he trained four winners on the nine-race card while Gareth partnered Flash Anatomy to a dead-heat for first and he ended the night with a win aboard Regal Major.
In Hobart Todd scored aboard his promising two-year-old filly Inwil in a 2C0 over 1609 metres in which she started the $2.60 favourite.
Wins aboard Taurisi in a C4-C5 and Roger Ramjet in a C6-C10 over 2019m came courtesy of top drives and his training quartet was delivered by Brady Woods who partnered Rattray's four-year-old Gods Sake to victory in a heat of the BOTRA Claiming Novice Driver's series.
"I suppose the driver's premiership looks interesting but to be honest I don't take too much notice," Todd Rattray said.
"Of course it would be nice to win the premiership because Gareth's won a heap but at the end of the day I'm more interested in how my horses perform each race than anything else."
"I was very pleased with Taurisi's win because it was probably the best he's gone because he's had to face the breeze but he slipped away from them on the corner and went on to win well.
"Roger Ramjet also won well but he's been a bit on and off this time in and I'd like to see him put two good runs together."
Gareth has notched 75 wins to lead Todd (72) with Rohan Hillier next best with 62 and seven clear of Ricky Duggan.
Peter Staples