Via Facile wins back to back Snake Gully Cups, Landlocked third Queanbeyan trainer Joe Cleary is keen to bring home the cup that this year bears his name. Queanbeyan trainer Joe Cleary is confident the Queanbeyan Cup will be sitting on his mantelpiece by the end of this month after Landlocked's third in the Snake Gully Cup at Gundagai on Friday. While Canberra's domination of the $55,000 feature race did not continue, with Goulburn gelding Via Facile winning the Snake Gully (1400 metres) for the second year in a row, Cleary's son of Zabeel finished strongly just more than a length away in third. Nick Olive's Nat King Cu was the first of the four Canberra-trained horses home in fourth. Canberra-trained horses have won four of the last eight Snake Gully's. Cleary considered running Landlocked in next Sunday's Goulburn Cup, but decided the turnaround would be too short to back it up in his main target - the Queanbeyan Cup (2000m). He sent his father Frank - a five-time group 1 winner, including the Golden Slipper - down to Gundagai as the "work experience kid," but will now take over the reins for the Queanbeyan Cup. "[Landlocked] was just left a little flatted because he's on a staying preparation and [jockey] John [Kissick] rode him perfectly," he said. Could not be happier. By all reports by what dad just told me his recovery was fantastic and straight on to the Queanbeyan Cup. The next 48 hours will determine how he recovers obviously, but that was just the perfect top up and Queanbeyan Cup Day, it looks like we're going to have the cup on our mantelpiece. If his eight-year-old gelding does win, it will be Cleary's Cup in both name and possession after he won the raffle to be the race's major sponsor. Landlocked will go for a spell after the cup on November 29. Cleary has two runners on the final day of the Gundagai Carnival on Saturday, Angelino and Rimu, which he rated as both chances. But he does not have any at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park on Sunday, which is hosting the inaugural Love Your Sister Race Day to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer research. Everyone is encouraged to wear pink.