Sheila’s Star and Down Under Boy completed a winning double for Rangal Park owner Eric Buttler at Bendigo on Saturday. 

Sheila’s Star (2f Snitzel – Northeast Sheila by Keltrice) was very impressive scoring second time out in the XXXX Gold 2yo Plate (1000m) for trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon.  She sat outside the leader and pinched a winning break at the top of the straight.

She boosted Snitzel’s first-crop winner tally to seven and the Arrowfield freshman can wrap up the 2YO sires’ premiership if his filly Chance Bye wins the $3.5 million Golden Slipper this Saturday.

Sheila’s Star is the fourth winner from Northeast Sheila who was a precocious winner of the G3 Blue Diamond Preview and Listed Maribyrnong Trial in 1998-99. 

Eagle Farm stakes winner Jacqueline Rouge (Ne Coupez Pas) is her best foal to date although Daintree Duke (Royal Academy) would have also made the grade at Group level.  He was prepared by Symons and Laxon but died after winning 5 of his 7 starts in 2008.

The Seymour based couple also train Down Under Boy who sent his bank balance past $300,000 with a first-up victory in the Elmore Cup (1600m) at Bendigo.

Down Under Boy (5g Ne Coupez Pas – Up Over Girl by Western Symphony) had been consistent without winning during a spring campaign that saw him earn more black-type when placed in the G3 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown.

Earlier in his career, Down Under Boy lost the 2007 SA Sires’ Produce Stakes (G3) on protest and later that year was beaten a neck by Pillar Of Hercules in the Norman Robinson Stakes (G3) at Caulfield.