After finishing second-last with the $2.05 favourite Regal Rave in the first race at Echuca on Monday, Seymour trainer Barry Goodwin made amends in the following race.
Goodwin bounced back with $2.25 favourite Entitled Princess in the Carlton Draught Maiden Plate (1600m).
Ridden by the in-form Daniel Stackhouse, the three-year-old Tavistock filly defeated Dashing Leopard ($19) by 1¾ lengths with Milonia a further three-quarters of a length away third.
Stable foreman Reece Goodwin said after the disappointment of the first race, he thought the day might be a complete washout when Stackhouse had to give Entitled Princess “a bit of a dig just to keep the three-wide spot”.
“When he asked the question he sought of looped them and it wasn’t too far into the straight when you could see she had them covered. She’s a nice staying filly going forward and a real privilege to train a winner in those colours (Seymour Bloodstock).
“She could possibly head to the (Group 1 Australasian) Oaks over there in South Australia in two weeks’ time. It’s throwing her into the deep end but she’s only a three-year-old once and she’s going to relish 2000 (metres) but we’ll see how she comes through this,” he said.
Seymour Bloodstock bred Entitled Princess and races her in partnership with Mangalore Park Racing.
Monday’s win came at the filly’s fourth start.
Bullet fires for Mick
Local trainer Mick Sell carried the flag for district stables at the Woodend Cup meeting at bet365 Park Kyneton last Saturday.
Sell saddled up Magnum Bullet ($9.50) to win the Ken Ponton 3YO Maiden Plate (1212m).
The Magnus gelding, ridden by Craig Robertson, beat the George Osborne-trained Delightful Journey ($19) by 1¾ lengths with Boogie Wonderland ($10) a half-head away third.
The win gave Sell’s clients an added bonus as the filly is Super VOBIS-qualified, adding $8400 to the $12,650 first prize.
Magnum Bullet was having her seventh start.
Cash for Money
Ballarat trainer Nigel Blackiston placed Protection Money ($8.50) beautifully in Saturday’s Massey Ferguson Woodend Cup (1875m).
The five-year-old Domesday gelding is VOBIS Gold-qualified and earned for his connections a $14,000 bonus, almost doubling the $14,850  winner’s prize.
The gelding, ridden by Neil Farley, defeated $3.50 favourite Lorente by three-quarters of a length with Thunder Cloud ($26) a further 1¼ lengths away third.
Most impressive winner on the eight-race card was the Tasmanian galloper Sir Da Vinci ($3.80).
The Scott Brunton-trained galloper was ridden by leading Tasmanian hoop David Pires, who made the trip over Bass Strait for the one ride.
The former Kiwi, coming off a seven-length romp over 2100 metres at Launceston, led from go to whoa in the Bobby Beare Memorial 0-58 Handicap (2837m) to win by four lengths.
The next meeting at bet365 Park Kyneton will be on Monday week, May 3.  
Drought-breaker
Seymour trainer Tony Waddell said following the win of Beeston Lad ($11) at Bendigo on Wednesday that he didn’t want to remember the last winner he saddled up.
“I’ve been training since 1980, for 41 years, had some good ones in the ’80s but recent years have been ordinary,” he said.
The eight-year-old Sakhee’s Secret gelding was an impressive winner of the $35,000 Ross Caldwell Plumbing Maiden Plate (2400m) under apprentice Alana Kelly.
“Alana has got him worked out perfectly. He just relaxed and it worked out nice,” said Waddell, a former cross-country rider who also owns the gelding.
The win was well earned as Beeston Lad had placed at Bendigo at his past three starts.
For Kelly it was a memorable 30 minutes as she won the following race aboard $31 pop Silence The Stars. The double paid $266.40.
Hoofnote: Waddell’s last winner was Deadly Kiss at Alexandra on January 4 2015. This writer’s stepson Chris Nolan and his mates had a horse with Waddell — King Del Cristi — win at Mansfield in December 2003.