June 17 - While most racehorse trainers experience both winning streaks and losing slumps during their careers, one Australian racehorse trainer, David Payne, is currently in the middle of a notable winning streak after chalking up a series of wins with two-year-olds from his stable, and even more on the horizon.

The most recent example is when Payne's classy two-year-old Winter King thundered home first in Tuesday's 1100m Freeway Republic Beer Handicap at Canterbury Racecourse in Sydney, after leading from the start. The victory was the colt's second since winning his maiden at Gosford Racecourse in May.

Winter King lead from start to finish despite carrying the topweight of 59kg on a slow track. 'It was a good effort,' said Payne. 'He's always had the ability and plenty of it but he's been a bit of a slow learner. Now that he has tasted victory once more, there will no doubt be more wins down the road for him.'

Owned by Les Samba and Roy Medich, Winter King is not their only colt expected to come up trumps this week. Tomorrow (Wednesday, June 17) the owners will send out Flaming Rock in the 1400m Randwick Betting Auditorium Handicap, where despite it being his debut, he should be the horse to beat.

The only worry that his trainer has is that the Warwick Farm course will be too wet for the Fastnet Rock thoroughbred. Said Payne, 'The wet ground is a bit of a question mark, but hopefully he'll go well.' And Payne's promising charges don't end there, as he has high hopes for More Than Great on Saturday.

Payne is not concerned whether Randwick Racecourse is waterlogged on Saturday, as More Than Great sailed to victory on a heavy Canterbury track earlier this month in his debut. 'The track should not pose a problem,' said Payne. He still has a lot of growing to do, but he should turn into a great three-year-old.'

Although the humble trainer says he is uncertain of just how many two-year-old races he has won this season, he believes he has chalked up about eight individual juvenile winners to his name. Born and bred in South Africa, Payne started his career as a jockey then moved to Australia in 2002 to became a trainer.

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