This Listed event over 1950m saw a majority on pace finish with the last start G1 placed mare Celebrity Miss winning with something in hand at the line. The mare sat outside the leader All The Way (finished fourth) and her rider Trudy Thornton had a big look to her right turning for home such was the grip she had on her charge, The result saw an almost two length win and 1:58.52 recorded for her seventh win in just twenty-two starts. She is to be given a chance at 3200m next month and then see if a Cups Triple Crown Bonus is viable. The runner up was another mare in Pondarosa Miss that carried half a kilo more than the winner. She finished strongly as normal after getting a nice tow into the race wide with cover across the top by the eventual third finisher. Pondarosa Miss still holds a Melbourne Cup berth but whether connections make the trip now is debatable but if you are not in then you cannot win. Smartly, another mare, ran a brave third after being the first to surge up wide across the top and loom into third turning for home. Fifth home was Flyinby that ran on late after turning for home ninth while the trailer to the home turn in Mangaroa Flo Jo finished seventh. Little Alfie Brown had a nightmare run wide in the open midfield then fifth and third and this 11yo will sleep well after such an outing. Noble Warrior was one-batting the run home while Empress Elect, the stablemate of the winner, was not too bad from last considering the class rise for the mare in this. Kindaleica, a normally on pacer, over-raced a lap out when buried back on the inner. He never ever looked a possibility in such a precarious position. Biologist over-raced too midfield the inner and stopped badly as if he is not a middle distance type but just a sprinter-miler. The stamina of the first two home is good and each does not mind rain-affected footing either so they could run in 3200m events next month in two different countries, with Riccarton for Celebrity Miss and Flemington for Pondarosa Miss.