Bookmakers took a battering at Yarmouth as five of the six races went to short-priced favourites.
Neil Callan was a key contributor as he landed a quickfire double initiated by John Gosden's giant two-year-old Buthelezi in the Avenue Pub & Restaurant Novice Stakes.
Anchored just off the pace, the 10-11 favourite stormed ahead through the final furlong, despite showing signs of inexperience, to record a head victory over the eyecatching Dux Scholar.
Smart prospect Harry Patch completed the double in the Avenue Pub & Restaurant Handicap.
Callan kept Michael Jarvis's charge prominent throughout before the even-money shot quickened smartly inside the final furlong to record a one-and-a-half-length victory over the gambled-on Mac's Power. Next month's Ayr Gold Cup could now be on the agenda.
Michael Bell's Shesells Seashells justified 7-2 co-favouritism to land the opening Avenue Pub Handicap in good fashion.
Held up off the pace, Hayley Turner rousted along the progressive three-year-old inside the final two furlongs to burst down the outside of the track and record a one-and-a-half-length victory over fellow co-favourite Cat Hunter.
Nelson's Bounty (5-2) took the Floral Designs Florist Gorleston Handicap under Tony Culhane, who waited patiently before sweeping through with purpose on Paul D'Arcy's gelding to claim a one-and-a-quarter-length victory over Osgood.
The trainer said: "It wasn't a particularly strong race, but he has done it well. He is a big, immature horse who has only just started to find himself. He definitely appreciated the cut in the ground and we will see what the handicapper does to us now."
Hamloola (1-2 favourite) looked impressive when scoring by eight lengths in the Yarmouth Greyhound Stadium Maiden Fillies' Stakes, while Wake Up Call (13-8 favourite) bagged a course-and-distance hat-trick in the Norfolk And Suffolk Animal Trust Fillies' Handicap.
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