Canberra hoop Richard Bensley scores a double at Thoroughbred Park Richard guides Life of Reilly home in the fourth at Thoroughbred Park on Sunday. Canberra jockey Richard Bensley has no signs of a holiday hangover as he celebrated his first day back at work by teaming up with Kembla trainer Bede Murray for a double at Thoroughbred Park on Sunday. After a short break, Bensley guided $2.10-favourite Golden Horizon home in the class 3 handicap (1400 metres) before saluting comfortably on Life Of Reilly in the benchmark 60 handicap (1600m). Doubling up seemed the order of the day at Canberra, with jockey Jay Ford also managing it. Richard Bensley. Ford flew home for an impressive win on Canberra trainer Gratz Vella's three-year-old filly American Time in the benchmark 65 handicap (1200m), swooping past Keith Dryden's Room To Boom. Dryden looked to have pulled off a training masterstroke when he backed the son of Rock Of Gibraltar just two days after finishing ninth in Gundagai's Snake Gully Cup, but fell a half-length short. It would have given him a double for the day, with Bright Move saluting in the first race, the maiden plate (1000m). Ford, who rode Queanbeyan legend Takeover Target all over the world, then won on Danny William's Faverock in the last, the benchmark 60 handicap (1000m). Both of Murray's winners were carrying big weights: Life Of Reilly had 61 kilograms and Gold Horizon 61.5kg. He said it was tough trying to find the right race for the pair, who weren't quite good enough to compete in the city, but were all-but-weighted out of the country. "It was an easy win [for Life Of Reilly], down in grade a fair bit, but he's been a hard horse to place; that's why he's here today carrying the extra weight," Murray said. He's not quite up to the next grade. He had a run at Randwick last start - raced well, but he hadn't raced for six weeks because of programming and I thought he'd run well today, which he has, and the rain that came this morning didn't worry me either. It was a good win of [Golden Horizon's], 61.5kg, he had knee chips removed nearly 12 months ago. He was off the scene for nearly eight months and he's won two from two now. That's pretty pleasing as well. Murray said Life Of Reilly had done well since joining his stable from New Zealand. This horse we bought from New Zealand. I think he's won four now since we brought him over," he said. He didn't race til late, he'd only had three races in New Zealand when he came over and he's been a good buy for the boys. They'll have to step up in grade now and hopefully come down in the weight a bit.