SHANE Fitzgerald celebrated his 22nd birthday in good style as he teamed up with his principal supporter Mick Goff to get their respective new seasons off the mark with the victory of Nelson’s Rock (2-6/1) in the four-year-old maiden.

The race is proving to be quite a lucky one for the pair, as the one-and-a-half-length victory for the Mount Nelson gelding provided them with their second consecutive victory in the race, following on from the success of De Forgotten One 12 months earlier.