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Import adds Caulfield Cup to Teofilo’s two Melbourne Cups.

Teofilo added a Caulfield Cup quinella to his list of achievements after Without A Fight and his former stablemate West Wind Blows fought out Saturday's $5 million event.

Without A Fight became the 24th Group 1 winner for the son of Galileo, who has experienced great success in Australia through the likes of locally-trained gallopers Humidor, Kermadec, Happy Clapper and Palentino.

But his biggest wins came via Northern Hemisphere gallopers Cross Counter and Twilight Payment, who won the Melbourne Cup in 2018 and 2020.

That 3200-metre event is where the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Without A Fight is likely to head next after running down Simon and Ed Crisford's West Wind Blows to score by a long-head in the 2400m Caulfield Cup.

Without A Fight ran 13th in last year's Melbourne Cup (3200m), which was run on an unsuitably soft track.

"It is a special day, I've got to say a particular thank you to Sheikh Mohammed Obaid who made the call to send the horse out in the first place and he left him out here," Sam Freedman said.

"What a call. He's pulled the right rein."

Without A Fight, a seven-year-old by Australian time, has had four runs since for wins in the Group 3 Lord Mayor's Cup (1800m) and Group 2 Q22 (2200m) in Brisbane earlier in the year and a sixth placing in the Group 1 Underwood Stakes (1800m) preceding his Caulfield Cup effort.

He has now won 10 of 22 starts and $4.4 million in stakes.

Without A Fight is by the far the best-performed of five to race for Dubawi mare Khor Sheed, who was a Group 3 winner in Italy.

Khor Sheed is now owned by Yulong, which paid 28,000 gns for the 15-year-old at this year's Tattersalls February Sale and she is in-foal to Yulong stallion Lucky Vega.