Orica GreenEdge's Cameron Meyer has won the second stage of the Jayco Sun Herald Tour.
Will Clarke was in the leader's jersey going into a 146.2km stage from Mount Macedon - Bendigo, which was one that featured two category one climbs and two sprints.
Kane Walker of the Navitas Satalyst was the first rider away and led the peloton up the categoty one climb at Mount Macedon but he was caught after eight kilometres.
Robert Power of the Jayco AIS U23 team took the King Of The Mountains climb and the twenty four points on offer before a group of twenty one riders which included Simon Clarke, Cameron Meyer and Damien Howson of Orica Green Edge, Serge Pauwels of MTN Qhubeka, Lucas Euser, Chris Jones and Danny Summerhill of UnitedHealthCare, Enrico Pellizotti of Androni, Lachlan Norris of Drapac, Pat Bevin, Pat Shaw, Mark O'Brien and Joe Cooper of Avanti, Michael Torckler and Brendan Canty of Budget Forklifts, Mitchell Cooper of Navitas, Chris Hamilton and Lachlan Morton of National Team Australia, Grant Ferguson of Team Great Britain and Harry Carpenter and Robert Power of Jayco AIS U23, broke away, taking a lead of 1.20 after twenty five kilometres, which went out to 3.30 going into the final ninety kilometres.
Power took the second KOM for another twenty four points ahead of Drapac's Lachlan Norris, Patrick Bevin of Avanti and Brendan Canty of Budget Forklifts who mopped up the final four points.
On the descent, eleven riders in Clarke, Meyer, Pauwels, Pellizotti, Norris, Bevin, Torckler, Canty, Ferguson, Davies and Power went clear off the front, opening up a lead of thirty five seconds over the remaining escapers who were 8.08 ahead of the peloton with sixty kilometres left.
Six kilometres later and the group of escapers was back at twenty one rider and after a hundred kilometres of racing, they had taken the lead out to twelve minutes and forty seconds and then thirteen minutes.
It was back down to twelve minutes as a group of eleven riders including SImon Clarke took over on the front.
Cameron Meyer and Joe Cooper attacked going into the final three kilometres and went over the finish line for the McCaig sprint before starting on a final two kilometre lap with a twenty second lead over the nineteen pursuers.
Meyer and Cooper battled it out and it was the Orica GreenEdge rider who took the victory after shooting away from Cooper to win.
Third was Pat Bevin some fifteen seconds back, followed by Simon Clarke who was 19 seconds back. Then came Norris, Howson, Summerhill, Lachlan Morton and Davies.
Cameron Meyer now leads the race with a four second lead over Joe Cooper and fifteen seconds over Pat Bevin.