Darren Weir in two-state, five-winner haul

Saturday 25 July 2015, 5:57pm

A winning double at Caulfield has clinched Darren Weir his second straight Melbourne trainers' premiership and put him within reach of another milestone.

The win by Weir-trained two-year-old Starsi in the David Hopwood Handicap at Caulfield on Saturday was followed by stablemate Refulgent's victory in the $150,000 VOBIS Gold Heath.

Weir also trained a winning treble at Morphettville on Saturday, taking his overall season tally across Australia to 293 wins.

He needs just seven more before July 31 to reach a milestone 300 nation-wide winners this term.

Weir started the penultimate city meeting on Saturday four wins ahead of Peter Moody in the Melbourne metropolitan trainers' premiership and Moody could only manage one win with Monteux, leaving Weir five clear on 77.

Moody had five runners entered for Geelong on Sunday, the final metropolitan meeting of the season, but two have already been scratched.

"I've got a lot of good support from a lot of good people," Weir said.

"It's been a great season all-round and it's been a good day today."

– AAP

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