Darley Australia's Peter Snowden resurrected his bid for the Sydney trainers' premiership with a winning double at Randwick to move just 2-1/2 wins from Gai Waterhouse in the title race.But it was the incredibly durable young country horse Lucky Elmo who stole the show on Wednesday with his close second that nearly kept Snowden to one winner for the day.Lucky Elmo was having his 19th career start and his fourth this month and clung gallantly to the lead halfway down the straight in the North Bon

Darley Australia's Peter Snowden resurrected his bid for the Sydney trainers' premiership with a winning double at Randwick to move just 2-1/2 wins from Gai Waterhouse in the title race.

But it was the incredibly durable young country horse Lucky Elmo who stole the show on Wednesday with his close second that nearly kept Snowden to one winner for the day.

Lucky Elmo was having his 19th career start and his fourth this month and clung gallantly to the lead halfway down the straight in the North Bondi Handicap (1300m), but in the last couple of bounds the Snowden-trained Lonhro debutant Heraklion got up to win by a short neck.

The win gave Snowden and stable jockey Kerrin McEvoy a winning double after they earlier celebrated victory with Aultone.

Snowden said he'd rather not think about the premiership.

"Whenever I do I get ulcers," he said with a smile.

The Bindi Cheers-trained Lucky Elmo is known for a three things - being a rig, winning the first juvenile race of the season in September last year and being just about the most experienced two-year-old anywhere on the planet.

In a great show of sportsmanship Snowden paid credit to Cheers immediately after the race.

"He's a tough horse and full credit to his trainer, she's done a super job, he's so hard to run down and she should be proud of the horse," he said.

Rather than stand around and receive any plaudits Cheers, who is based at Taree on the NSW north coast, was also Lucky Elmo's strapper and quickly whisked the horse away but did have a few words to say to the media.

"He's a tough bugger, it's a shame he hasn't got more ability," Cheers said.

Asked when the horse was running again, Cheers said: "Saturday, back here."

Lucky Elmo is nominated for a 1600-metre Two-Year-Old Handicap.

After winning the first two-year-old race of the season at Tamworth on September 26, a sample showed an elevated level of the male hormone in Lucky Elmo.

Cheers provided documentation showing treatments given to Lucky Elmo and further tests were taken.

That was supported by Racing NSW senior veterinarian Dr Craig Suann who examined the horse and the results of pathology tests.

Stewards then directed Lucky Elmo be classed as a rig - a horse with an undescended testicle.