Jockey Cyril Small turned back the clock to the days he rode the champion Vo Rogue when he scored his first metropolitan winner in more than eight years on Wednesday.

Small, 54, was a national hero when he won 22 races on the front running Vo Rogue including two Australian Cups and four other Group One events.

Vo Rogue, who died in May 2012 aged 28, retired in 1991 but Small has kept plugging away and in recent years mainly rides in the northern rivers and on country tracks.

Small showed he had lost none of his flair when he brought Enchantee ($3.70) from last to win the Gallopers $1 Membership Hcp (1615m) at Doomben on Wednesday.

Asked when his last city winner had been Small replied: "I honestly don't know. It was a while ago."

A check of the records showed Small's last win was on Miss Linkin in a Doomben maiden in October 2005.

Enchantee is a real family horse and was bought by Small's wife Lynlea and his son Dan at a breeze up sale.

It is now raced by a group of members of the Small family and their friends.

"Even our accountant is in it," Lynlea Small said.

Lynlea Small originally trained Enchantee but after the mare wrecked her float she was transferred to Kim Loy who got her first city winner on Wednesday.

"We called her Enchantee because one of my favourite movies is Beauty and the Beast and one of the characters is always saying to the heroine, Belle, Enchantee," Lynlea Small said.

She said Cyril had been riding well and deserved more chances.

Gold Coast based Loy has been training for two years and Small also rode her first overall winner in Diamond Pearl at Murwillumbah last May.