Sutherland is on his way to a sixth Southern District Racing Association (SDRA) trainer's premiership and also sits in the top five for the statewide country title.

He showed why on Monday as Come Get Me and Riverbend Chief, two horses Sutherland says don't handle the wet, got through the heavy going to provide him with a double.

Come Get Me ($9.50) upstaged the older horses to win the Cottontails Restaurant & Winery Maiden Plate (1000m), while Riverbend Chief ($16) took out the first division of the South Wagga Butchery Battlers Cup Benchmark 50 Handicap (1300m).

Come Get Me, who had placed at three of her eight starts leading up to Monday, is a half sister to five-time stakes winner Bold Thruster so Sutherland was delighted to get a win with her at two.

"She's a really, really nice mare and hates the wet, absolutely hates the wet," Sutherland said.

"She's a sister to Bold Thruster, a horse I sent to Singapore, who's an outstanding horse in Singapore, one of the best horses. She's got a really nice breeding page and I really wanted to get a win as a two-year-old.

"She's a real dry tracker so she can go the paddock now and have a spell."

Riverbend Chief's success in the Battlers Cup was his sixth career victory and second this campaign.

Sutherland was pleased to see the talented six-year-old back at his best on an unsuitable heavy track.

"I said to Shaun (Guymer) he'll get through this today because it's clugish. He swings one front foot, that's his trouble, so if he gets out of balance on the wet he just loses it," he said.

"This is the best horse I've trained if I could ever get 100 per cent right and everything his own way he can do sensational things.

"We've had lots of little niggles with him and it was just nice because we thought we had him pretty right again today."

Come Get Me was ridden by Kayla Nisbet, while Shaun Guymer piloted Riverbend Chief to victory.

Sutherland also had Gentleman Max (second) and Real Key (fourth) run well behind the Geoff Duryea-trained Straover ($2.90) in the Hillis Motor Group Open Handicap (1300m).

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