BATH racecourse provided a good start to the week for local trainers Peter Makin and Roger Charlton.

Golden Rock and Home Advantage gave the Beckhampton yard just over a 40/1 double while Ogbourne handler Peter Makin was in the winners’ enclosure with Sometsuke, his first winner of the new flat turf season.

Makin was relieved to see his charge win by five lengths after persuading the owners not to sell the four-year-old after a disappointing season last year.

The trainer went on to tell the waiting press: “ My head was on the chopping block here, particularly as he had disappointed at Windsor first time out this year.”

Ridden by jockey Fergus Sweeney, Sometsuke’s five-length victory could mean a dramatic rise in the handicap, and the shrewd trainer will be looking at a chance to run the winner again very soon before the handicapper gets to revise his ratings.

The victory of the Charlton-trained Home Advantage prompted a question from the stewards at the meeting as to the improvement in form of the colt, who had failed to reach the frame in his three previous starts.

The trainer told the officials his winner was suited by the step up in trip and the firmer ground.

The wellbeing of the Charlton yard was advertised later in the week when Soul Station, ridden by former apprentice at the Beckhampton yard Richard Kingscote, won the one-mile one-furlong handicap at Goodwood.

The delighted trainer saying: “It was only fair he kept this ride as this is a difficult horse, who actually turned round in the stalls, and he’s done the work on him to get him through the stalls test.”

Sea Of Heartbreak was the fourth winner of the week for Charlton at Salisbury’s evening meeting on Thursday.

Ogbourne trainer Peter Makin told Turf Talk that it was nice to get a winner under his belt adding: “The horses have been running well and the few horses we have run this season have been getting in the frame, so it was nice to have a winner.

“We have entered Sometsuke at Windsor on Monday evening with the hope of getting another win before the handicapper adjusts his rating.

“We are just looking for the right race to run in at the moment.”

The trainer also added that he has a nice bunch of two-year-olds that will be running later this season.

“We haven’t done a lot with them at the moment but the first to run could be Laugh Or Cry,” he said.

“The four-year-olds and upwards should run well this season but I’m not too sure of the three-year-olds, hopefully the youngsters will run well later in the season.”