Peter Snowden finally has a Ramornie memory to savour with the Darley-owned Pinwheel taking out the feature sprint at the Grafton carnival.In his previous life as a jockey, Sydney's leading trainer rode at the Grafton carnival for many years but his last visit in 1975 was a disaster when he broke his ankle in a fall from One Eyed Queen.A last-start second to the outstanding Hay List in the Healy Stakes in Brisbane, Pinwheel was sent out the $3.30 favourite after topweight Border Rebel drifted to

Peter Snowden finally has a Ramornie memory to savour with the Darley-owned Pinwheel taking out the feature sprint at the Grafton carnival.

In his previous life as a jockey, Sydney's leading trainer rode at the Grafton carnival for many years but his last visit in 1975 was a disaster when he broke his ankle in a fall from One Eyed Queen.

A last-start second to the outstanding Hay List in the Healy Stakes in Brisbane, Pinwheel was sent out the $3.30 favourite after topweight Border Rebel drifted to $4.80.

Pinwheel took the lead inside the 200 metres to race clear of Forestreno ($13) and beat him by a length with Lifebuoy ($31) a closing half length third.

As foreman for John Hawkes for many years and now the trainer for Darley, Snowden hadn't been involved with a runner for many years until Pinwheel who was ridden on Wednesday by embattled jockey Danny Nikolic who racked up a treble at the meeting.

"I fell in the Ramornie as a rider and broke my ankle," Snowden said.

"I used to go every year as a jockey but we didn't have a runner when I was with John (Hawkes).

"It was a really good effort from Pinwheel and a good ride and the barrier (1) helped.

"It's a great sprint race and has been well identified for a long time.

"From Brisbane on I really looked at the race for Pinwheel.

"There was nothing else at his level.

"He's not quite a Group horse but he's better than Saturday company."

"He's an honest honest horse, his record speaks itself and he deserved to get a race like that behind him."

Snowden remained in Sydney to take care of his runners at Warwick Farm.

He didn't welcome a winner but still commands a healthy lead on the way to his first Sydney premiership.

Nikolic, who was embroiled in yet another controversy when he clashed with trainer Brian Johnston at Flemington on Saturday, was full of praise for Pinwheel.

"It was a very good win," Nikolic said.

"He's a very underrated horse, he always finishes in the first two.

"He's genuine and makes his own luck."

Border Rebel finished sixth after weakening in the home straight under his big weight.

Before the race, trainer Sue Grills expressed her reservations about running him and her fortunes turned even worse when stablemate Ollie Vollie came out of the gates five lengths behind the field.

A $17 chance, Ollie Vollie was declared a non runner.

The Grafton Guineas (1600m) was won by the Bede Murray-trained World Wide, a brother to unplaced Ramornie runner Kenny's World who is prepared by Murray's son Graham.

The win brought up a double for Bede Murray after See The Universe won a maiden earlier in the day.

Nikolic's other winners were on the Clarry Conners-trained Sir Lago and Sukab for the Graeme Rogerson stable.