Unbeaten Beneteau is trained by Scone mentor Paul Messara, who won with two of his three starters at Muswellbrook.

Having her first race start, the Arrowfield Stud owned and bred filly Entrée, won the feature race, the $12,000 Judith Gelder Memorial Two-Year-Old Country Plate over 1000 metres.

With leading Newcastle jockey Allan Robinson aboard, Entrée, a daughter of Snitzel, was sent out 2.70 favourite, and was untroubled to win by a length and three quarters from Baden Perrett’s Silent Winn, with the Warwick Farm trained Dejavu Rock, filling the minor placing.

According to a stable representative, Entrée is likely to have her next start at a mid-week metropolitan meeting.

Messara, who was in Melbourne, completed his winning double when four-year-old mare Pronounce (Grant Buckley) won the Benchmark 55 handicap (900m) in a close tussle by a short head from Miss Fanatik.

Martinette (Alison Threadwell) was well back in third. Stewards declared the Darren Smith trained Dream And Excel (Allan Robinson) a non-runner after the mare had her head in an adjacent stall when the field was released.

The 4.40 favourite for the race, Caliban, failed to flatter and beat only one runner home.

Hobby trainer and full-time butcher Peter Englebrecht, was the only local to win on the eight race program when his

sole runner at the meeting, Princess Sharon (3.60) won the Maiden Plate (1280m).

Ridden by Scott Thurlow, Princess Sharon scored by a half length from the Kris Lees trained 3.20 favourite In A Jam (Andrew Gibbons). Our Chanel (21.0) was three lengths back third.

Princess Sharon, a four-year-old mare by Choisir, began her racing career in Victoria before being sold to local owners.

The mare was having her second start for Englebrecht and was previously trained by Brent Trinder, a former jockey, who started his career in Perth and rode with success in numerous other states before a fall in Queensland cut short his riding career. However, he still rides Princess Sharon in fast trackwork.