The day had a special start with Archie Alexander's Lord Kensington claiming a win in his debut race in the opening event.

The three-year-old gelding beat Nathan Hobson's Soweto Haze by 2.25L, with Matthew Williams' Intellective rounding out the top three.

Paul Presuker's Rising Archie finished fifth in his debut race.

Darci's Tune took out the second race, with Patrick Payne's three-year-old storming home by 2.5L.

Nathan Hobson's All the Wine came in second, followed closely by Shea Eden's Raining Embers, ridden by Horsham's Dean Yendall.

Horsham's Paul Preusker's Anamagjc finished fourth in what was his sixth career start.

Dean Bowman's Wish I Might won a thrilling third race, edging out Ciaron O'Maher and David Eustance's Vapid - ridden by Linda Meech - by 0.2L.

Lady Drake, trained by Sue Jaensch, finished third.

Wimmera jockeys took out the top two places in race four.

Linda Meech rode Ciaron O'Maher and David Eustance's West Wind to victory.

The result continued the four-year-old's perfect run, having won all three of its career starts since making its debut last month.

Phillipe Huserot's Cause We Can came second, ridden by Christine Puls.

Puls featured in two races on Horsham Cup day.

Elite Joy, trained by Kevin McCartin, came in third.

Pat McKenna's Discovered claimed the fifth race by 2.25L from Kevin McCartin-trained Solsay.

It was the six-year-old''s second win in just nine career starts.

Brad Cole's Make Me Dough finished a close third.

Paul Preusker will have a runner on Oaks Day after The Great Artiste won the Melbourne Cup Country Carnival series heat.

The winner of the $100,000 heat automatically earns a place in the country series final at Flemington next month and a shot at $500,000 in prize money.

The winner is joined by the second place horse, which was Terry and Karina O'Sullivan's Boss Coni.

The Stawell-based horse missed out by 0.2L.

Matthew William's Paremuus Boy rounded out the top three in the country series heat.

Glenn Thornton's Mister Jay won the final race of the day.

The five-year-old was paying $9.50 heading into the race and held out against Mervyn McKenzie's A Good Yarn.

Daniel Bowman's Favonski finished third in race eight.Sweet Snitty and Rhytmatic finished fourth and fifth respectively.