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$30,000 Classic filly collects $300,000 debut winner’s cheque
Within The Law landed her connections a large immediate return with her decisive win in Saturday's $500,000 Inglis Banner.
The Bjorn Baker-trained filly collected the $300,000 winner's cheque after powering to a 1-1/4 lengths win over $4.20 favourite Chisholm in the 1000-metre race restricted to Inglis graduates.
Within The Law, a daughter of Yulong first-season stallion Lucky Vega and the Dundeel mare Contract Signed who started $7, cost Darby Racing just $30,000 at this year's Inglis Classic Sale.
"Of course, at Warwick Farm in Sydney, they're our neighbours, so it's great to win the Inglis race," Baker said.
Ben Melham, who teamed with Darby Racing to win a Golden Slipper aboard She Will Reign, was aboard for the Banner win and the top jockey predicted a bright future for Within The Law.
"She did everything right and that takes them a long way in these early two-year-old races," Melham said.
"I put a couple around her backside and she dropped the clutch and she let down well, she's a nice filly going places."
Champions Day played host to the first Inglis Banner run at Flemington with Cox Plate Day previously home to the race that counts Starspagledbanner, Elite Falls, Fontiton and Arkansaw Kid among past winners.
That race now also carries a $200,000 bonus to the first horse home who boasts a minimum of 75 percent female ownership with this year's winner being Rohesia, a $150,000 Premier yearling, who also collected $45,000 third prize.
