The Anthony Cummings trained Forewarned (3 g More Than Ready - Danehill Diva, by Danehill) could not have been more impressive in winning the $27,000 Schweppes Maiden (1400m) at the ATC metropolitan meeting at Kembla on Wednesday, revelling in the soft conditions to win by six and a half lengths.

The $90,000 Magic Millions Gold Coast yearling left Hydropower (Rusty Spur) toiling behind with Miss Ready (More Than Ready) a further length and three-quarters away third.

“We’ve always had a good opinion of him, but he’s had some bad barriers and had to go back on tight tracks,” winning rider Peter Robl said. ”With the blinkers on today he did what we always thought he could do.”

Forewarned’s dam is a full sister to GrI Queensland Oaks winner Miss Danehill and half-sister to Gr II winner Pentastic.

The breeding cross is the same as Sebring (More Than Ready - Purespeed, by Flying Spur) as are his jockey’s silks and Raceway (More Than Ready - Claws (Flying Spur) took his first step to emulating Sebring with his win at Saturday’s Warwick Farm meeting.

Sebring retired to Widden Stud after five wins in six starts, including the 2008 Golden Slipper and AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes, for a syndicate formed by Star Thoroughbreds founder Denise Martin.

Raceway settled midfield early in the Warwick Farm 100 Club Plate (1000m) before unleashing a terrific turn of sprint to score an impressive debut win sporting the Star Thoroughbreds purple and white silks.

Martin paid $150,000 for Raceway at the 2011 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale. The exuberant syndicator expects to recoup her outlay on Raceway in the coming months.

“He’s a really good two-year-old. A really smart horse,” Martin said. “Half of the Sebring group are in this horse.”

Raceway’s jockey Hugh Bowman said he would do his best to stay aboard Raceway in the near future.

“He’s the nicest two-year-old I’ve ridden for quite some time,” Bowman said. “I had nothing to do with the horse before today but with a bit of luck I might have a bit more to do with him.”

More Than Ready was also represented by his 10th Gr 1 winner overnight when Gimmethegreenlight (3 c More Than Ready - Yes She Can Cancan, by Canny Lad) won the Queen’s Plate (1600m) at Kenilworth in South Africa. Gimmethegreenlight was purchased at the Magic Millions National Yearling sale for $155,000 from the Vinery Stud draft.

Vinery Stud sire More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) could have a representative with a genuine winning hope in the upcoming Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) after Samaready’s impressive debut win at Flemington.

More Than Ready has produced Sebring (More Than Ready - Purespeed, by Flying Spur) and Phelan Ready (More Than Ready - Nancy Eleanor, by Blevic) to win the Group 1 Golden Slipper but Blue Diamond success has eluded the top juvenile sire.

Samaready (More Than Ready - Samar, by Secret Savings) raced handy to the speed early in the Spotless Plate (1000m) before extending strongly to score by 1-1/4 lengths. The win exceeded her trainer Mick Price’s expectations but he said he would now aim the filly at Victoria’s richest two-year-old race.

“I thought she might be a bit underdone,” Price said. “I thought she looked a little tubby in the mounting yard and I said to the guys if she was to win today there is a lot of improvement in her.

“But she’s very sound, not shin-sore, and her knees are good. She’s a genuinely good filly, she has a great temperament and I’m pointing her to the Blue Diamond.

“She has a very bright future. She’s a Blue Diamond filly for sure.”

Samaready’s dam Samar (Secret Savings - Nice Choice, by Touching Wood) has already produced a juvenile stakes winner from her four foals to race. Her daughter Night War (General Nediym - Samar, by Secret Savings) won last year’s Group 2 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) in Perth.

Vinery stallion More Than Ready, sire of this year’s Gr 2 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Regally Ready, will stand for $60,000 in Kentucky in 2012, up from $40,000 in 2010.

Last year, More Than Ready’s daughter More Than Real won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and his son, Pluck, captured the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf the following day. More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) stands at Tom Simon’s Vinery in Kentucky and shuttles to Vinery in NSW’s Hunter Valley.

With nine stakes winners in 2011 and progeny earnings of $6,777,459, More Than Ready ranks sixth on the general sires list.

Vinery’s 2012 fees (and 2011 fees):

Kentucky

Benny The Bull    $3,500 ($3,000)

Congrats     $35,000 ($15,000)

Kodiak Kowboy    $6,500 ($10,000)

Limehouse    $5,000 ($6,500)

More Than Ready    $60,000 ($40,000)

Pioneerof the Nile    $15,000 ($17,500)

Pure Prize    $7,500 ($5,000)

Street Hero    $5,000 ($6,500)

Florida

Backtalk  $3,500 (new stallion)

D’wildcat   $6,500 ($8,500)

Kantharos    $5,000 (same)

Maimonides    $3,500 (same)

Pomeroy  : $10,000 ($5,000)

New York

Bluegrass Cat    $17,500 ($25,000)

D’ Funnybone  $3,500 (new stallion)

Friendly Island    $3,500 (same)

Frost Giant   $5,000 ($7,500)

Giant Surprise  $3,500 (new stallion)

Posse  : $10,000 (same)

Proliferate (More Than Ready - Grand Prospect, by Flying Spur) became the 91^st individual stakes winner for Vinery Stud’s champion stallion More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) with a game success in Thursday’s Listed Batman Handicap (1800m) at Flemington.

The Mick Price-trained colt made light of the jump from restricted class to stakes grade in the $150,000 feature. Proliferate settled behind the leader before gaining an inside run at the 300 metres, driving clear to score comfortably.

Price said he would recommend to Proliferate’s owner the colt be spelled with a view to testing the horse over staying trips as an autumn three-year-old. Proliferate is a half-brother to Grand Journey (Good Journey - Grand Prospect, by Flying Spur), who won a Group 1 WATC Derby (2400m) in Perth.

“He was actually bred to get a trip and he is a half (brother) to a filly who won the WATC Derby, Grand Journey,” Price said. “If you have a look at him in the yard, he is a real staying type of colt with a big long neck on him, clean winded.

“I think we’ll put him out and he’ll get to the AJC Derby route unless the owners jump up and down and want to run him in the Sandown Guineas but he is a horse with a future as a winner.”

Proliferate is bred on the same More Than Ready / Flying Spur (Danehill) cross as the 2008 Golden Slipper winner Sebring (More Than Ready - Purespeed, by Flying Spur). The More Than Ready / Danehill cross has also produced Derby winners Dreamaway (More Than Ready - Legal Consent, by Danehill) and Benicio (More Than Ready - Mannington, by Danehill).

Meanwhile, the classy Testa Rossa (Perugino - Bo Dapper, by Sir Dapper) mare Ortensia (Testa Rossa - Aerate’s Pick, by Picnicker) made a fine start to the second phase of her career with a strong win in the Listed Begonia Belle Stakes (1100m).

Top Vinery Stud sire More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) lit up Friday’s night racing with a trio of winners spread across the Moonee Valley and Canterbury meetings.

More Than Ready drew a blank during daylight hours but his progeny hit top form when the sun went down. The Mark Kavanagh-trained Definitely Ready (More Than Ready - Defiant, by Danehill) produced the Melbourne leg of More Than Ready’s trio of successes with a bold front-running performance to win the latest heat of the Essendon Mazda 55-Second Challenge (955m).

Kavanagh paid $140,000 for Definitely Ready at the 2008 Gold Coast Magic Millions yearling sale. The five-year-old took his prizemoney tally to more than $250,000 after his seventh win from 13 starts.

Trans-Tasman trainer Graeme Rogerson prepared More Than Ready’s second winner of the evening when Dats A Lass scored a last-stride win in the Campsie RSL Club Maiden Plate (1100m). Dats A Lass became the third winner from as many runners for her dam Happy Play (Barathea - Sibelienne, by Nishapour).

Happy Play is a half-sister to the Group 1-winning stayer Newport (Encosta De Lago - Sibelienne, by Nishapour).

The Mark De Montfort-trained Setgo (More Than Ready - Laser Belle, by Spectrum) completed the stallion’s treble with his fast-finishing win in the Club Ashfield Handicap (1250m).

More Than Ready has sired the winners of 48 races in Australia this season.

Former and current shuttle stallions enjoyed Grade 1 success in North America at the weekend. Montjeu (Sadler’s Wells) was responsible for Gr 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes winner Miss Keller (5 m Montjeu - Ingozi, by Warning) over a mile and a quarter at Woodbine in Canada where he sired a Grade 1 quinella in the Canadian International Stakes with Sarah Lynx (4 m Montjeu - Steel Princess, by Danehill) defeated Joshua Tree (4 h Montjeu - Madeira Mist, by Grand Lodge) by four lengths.

Also on the same Woodbine card, Regally Ready (4 g More Than Ready - Kivi, by King Of Kings) landed the $500,000 Gr 1 Nearctic Stakes over six furlongs. Raced by Vinery, who stand the stallion, Regally Ready is now likely to aim for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint in November.

“The main thing with him is to get him relaxed,” winning jockey Corey Nakatani said. “His first comeback race (the My Frenchman) he got a little late, but Steve said, ‘Don’t worry about it. We’ll be on track for the Breeders’ Cup. I think this was a great spot for him, and he did what he was supposed to do, going into the Breeders’ Cup.”

Further South, the former English filly Up In Time (3 f Noverre - Up At Dawn, by Inchinor) proved a length too good for Celestial Kitten (Kitten’s Joy) in the $100,000 Gr 3 Harold C Ramser Stakes over one mile on turf at Santa Anita.

Better Be The One (More Than Ready – Common Smytzer, by Snippets) added another string to his bow when he claimed the $200,000 Gr 3 Saas Fee Stakes (1400m) at Kranji on Sunday.

Stepping up to the 1400m journey for the first time in his 23 start career, Better Be The One, ridden by Vlad Duric, scored a three-quarter length victory over Apache Crown (Beautiful Crown) with Parfumier (Belong To Me) a head away third.

Trainer Michael Freedman said the Saas Fee Stakes success was a bit of an after thought, but one that he was happy to take. He added that it certainly added other options for Better Be The One, who won a stakes race at Flemington as Common Interest, and who is regarded in many circles as the second best sprinter in Singapore behind Rocket Man.

“I said before the race that win, lose or draw he was going for a break and that we would bring him back and have another try at Dubai. He’s been up for quite sometime now and really he’s only put in one bad run, so today was the perfect time to try him at the trip.”

Her jockey Nash Rawiller had his concerns but grand Sydney mare More Joyous (More Than Ready - Sunday Joy, by Sunday Silence) posted her 15^th win from 20 starts in Saturday’s Group 2 Tristarc Stakes (1600m) at Caulfield.

More Joyous wore down, rather than blew away, the John Sadler-trained mare Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice - Sister Madly, by Bureaucracy) to win the $180,000 race by a short neck.

Rawiller said the daughter of Vinery Stud’s champion More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) was not racing to her full capabilities but was pleased with the five-year-old’s performance.

“She did a good job. She is not going as well as she was normally when I ride her. She is getting a little bit older,” he said.

“She is just a very good mare with a big heart at the moment and certainly she doesn’t feel like she’s right there.”

More Joyous’s trainer Gai Waterhouse was her usual bright self when declaring the mare would head to the Group 1 Myer Classic (1600m) on Derby day.

“She should be able to win that. It’s lovely to have a mare as good as her.”

Vinery’s consistent line-up was among the winners again on Friday after More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman), Mossman (Success Express - Lichen Lady, by Twig Moss) and Testa Rossa (Perugino - Bo Dapper, by Sir Dapper) combined for a winning treble.

The Vinery Stud residents earned the lion’s share of their trio of successes at the Canberra meeting. Setgo (More Than Ready - Laser Belle, by Spectrum) won the Peter Blackshaw Handicap (1000m) before the three-year-old Mossman filly Party Dress (Mossman - Villeroy, by Jugah) claimed the Skyview Windows Handicap (1000m).

Alcmene (Testa Rossa - Miss Spitfire, by Flying Spur) provided a Victorian leg to Vinery’s treble when the mare took out the Mix 101.1 Handicap (1527m) at Mornington.

More Than Ready (37), Mossman (34) and Testa Rossa (36) have produced the winners of 107 races this season. The tally includes six stakes successes between the three sires.

Meanwhile, Glenlogan mainstay Falvelon’s (Alannon - Devil’s Zephyr, by Zephyr Zing) season’s tally moved to 33 after the sire’s progeny earned him a winning double at Taree on Friday.

Rubypeeptoes (Falvelon - Belgium Shoes, by Catbird) claimed the Commercial Hotel Krambach Handicap (1600m) before Narcelo (Falvelon - Getting Personal, by Personal Flag) took out the Krambach Cup (1600m).

The Gai Waterhouse stable produced the latest filly from a long line of Group 1 winners to score easily on debut at Thursday’s Gosford meeting.

More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) filly Go Kate Go (More Than Ready - St. Kate, by Danehill) comfortably disposed of her rivals to win the Avoca Dental Pink Ribbon Maiden Plate (1100m) by 3-3/4 lengths.

Magic Millions boss Gerry Harvey bred Go Kate Go . The three-year-old is a half-sister to the dual stakes winner Kakakakatie (Zeditave - St. Kate, by Danehill) and is a grand-daughter of the outstanding producer St Klaire (Bletchingly - Great Klaire, by Great Nephew).

St Klaire produced three Group 1 winners - Telesto, Faternity and Bonanova (all Star Way - St Klaire, by Bletchingly). Bonanova produced stakes winner of her own with Prima Nova (Danehill Dancer - Bonanova, by Star Way) and Bonaichi (Fusaichi Pegasus - Bonanova, Star Way).

Go Kate Go is also bred on the same More Than Ready / Danehill cross as the likes of top class performers Dreamaway (More Than Ready - Legal Consent, by Danehill), Perfectly Ready (More Than Ready - Elle Duccio, by Danehill) and Benicio (More Than Ready - Mannington, by Danehill).

Parilla (More Than Ready - Corporate Queen, by British Banker) completed a double for More Than Ready with his win in the Knight Frank Melbourne Cup Day (1200m) at Rockhampton.

More Than Ready has sired the winners of 34 races this season.

More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) juvenile Cambiaso (More Than Ready - Flying Alpha, by Flying Spur) has created a strong impression with his win in Melbourne’s first two-year-old race of the season, the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) at Flemington.

Trainer Danny O’Brien paid $300,000 for the colt at this year’s Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale. Cambiaso’s win returned $60,000 to connections but O’Brien said the youngster would have the opportunity to earn further riches when he returns from a break in the autumn.

O’Brien said Cambiaso, who was named after the Argentinean polo player Adolfo Cambiaso, had shown him a good amount of talent prior to his first start but would benefit from the experience and further time to develop.

“He’s a beautiful colt,” O’Brien said.

“He was a lovely yearling and he’s one of those horses from the minute you broke him that he was pretty special and he’s done this today pretty much on raw ability. He’s only had the one jump-out.

“We’ll put him away now. He’s going to be a really serious two-year-old in the autumn. We’ll give him a break and aim him for the Blue Diamond and possibly Sydney.”

Cambiaso provided More Than Ready with his 90^th individual stakes winner and the Vinery’s first stakes success of the season. Cambiaso is bred on the same More Than Ready / Flying Spur (Danehill - Rolls, by Mr Prospector) cross as Golden Slipper winner Sebring (More Than Ready - Purespeed, by Flying Spur)

Glamour Sydney mare More Joyous (More Than Ready - Sunday Joy, by Sunday Silence) will need to overcome last season’s champion two-year-old Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) if she is to give her sire his first stakes win of the season in Friday’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

Vinery resident More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) has sired the winners of 26 races this season but stakes success has eluded him so far.

Sepoy and More Joyous are the favoured runners in an eight-horse field. Mossman (Success Express - Lichen Lady, by Twig Moss) gelding Buffering (Mossman - Action Annie, by Anabaa) will provide another opportunity for a Vinery sire to win the $500,000 race.

Kulgrinda (Exceed And Excel - River Crossing, by Bellotto) will give Darley sires their second shot at claiming the Manikato Stakes.

Former Hong Kong sprinter Happy Zero (Danzero - Have Love, by Canny Lad) will represent the new Rosemont Stud stallion Danzero (Danehill - Confidentially, by Kaoru Star).

Top trainer David Hayes is out to rekindle past two-year-old performances with four nominations for Victoria’s first juvenile race of the season, Sunday’s Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) at Flemington.

Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) won last year’s running of the race before dominating the two-year-old ranks with his wins in the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) and Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m).

Hayes was a key player in Victorian juvenile racing before the influence of the Lee Freedman, Peter Moody and Peter Snowden stables diluted the trainer’s hold on the two-year-old arena. Now based at Euroa, Hayes has nominated Bradman (Charge Forward - Portrayal, by Flying Spur) and Maraatib (Redoute’s Choice - Valadon, by Woodman).

Peter Devitt paid $325,000 for Bradman at the 2011 Magic Millions Gold Coast sale while Maraatib cost Shadwell Stud $700,000 at this year’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sale.

Prominent owner Jonathan Munz’s Pinecliff Racing provided Hayes’s third Maribyrnong Trial Stakes nomination Kangxi (General Nediym - Celadon, by Danehill) while another Shadwell Stud-owned runner Wazeer (More Than Ready - Bahja, by Zabeel) rounded out the stable’s quartet.

Click here to view the nominations for Sunday’s Maribyrnong Trial Stakes and the rest of the program, including the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m).

Outstanding three-year-old Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) is one of 12 entries for Friday night’s Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.

The Darley-owned colt had a look at the tight Moonee Valley circuit on Monday morning. Sepoy is one of three runners by Darley-based sires among the entries for the $500,000 sprint.

Peter Moody has nominated the Contract Racing-owned duo Curtana (Exceed And Excel - Razor Blade, by Blazing Sword) and Kulgrinda (Exceed And Excel - River Crossing, by Bellotto) for the Manikato Stakes.

The Manikato Stakes will be the first spring appearance for the high-quality Gai Waterhouse-trained mare More Joyous (More Than Ready - Sunday Joy, by Sunday Silence).

Robert Heathcote’s game sprinter Buffering (Mossman - Action Annie, by Anabaa) will also run in the Manikato Stakes after his gritty last-start win in the Group III McEwen Stakes (1000m).

Click here for the nominations for the Manikato Stakes, as well as the other seven races on Friday night’s Moonee Valley meeting.

Australian-bred Better Be The One (4 g More Than Ready – Common Smytzer, by Snippets) landed his second black type win when successful in the $S200,000 Group 3 Garden City Trophy (1200m) at Kranji in Singapore on Sunday.

Leading from the outset, Better Be The One was never seriously threatened and recorded a one-and-a-quarter length victory over the Argentine-bred Argy Bargy  in the time of 1 min 09.87 secs for the 1200m journey.

A consistent performer behind Singapore’s world class sprinter, Better Be The One had yet to be successful at Group level since his arrival in Singapore although he had been victorious in Listed company as a two-year-old prior to being sent from Australia.

Under the conditions of Sunday’s race, Better Be The One was attractively weighted as he didn’t receive a penalty, despite being the highest rated galloper in the field. And a barrier trial victory on September 15 had trainer Michael Freedman and Duric convinced the gelding was back to his best. “Surprisingly it’s his first Group win anywhere,” said Freedman. “He was successful in Listed company before he came here.”

“Under the conditions of this race he was well in at the weights. I was concerned before the race that he hadn’t won for a while, but after his trial the other day both Vlad and I thought that he was right back to his best.

“He had been carrying big weights and racing well and with the weight drop today he was well suited. It is a big thrill to win a race like this especially for someone like John (O’Neil) who sent him up here after he reached his mark back home in Melbourne.”

Freedman praised the initiative of Duric who was trapped wide in the early stages of the race before rolling to the front. “I was concerned with the barrier in the small field,” said Freedman. “There didn’t look to be a lot of speed and I didn’t tie Vlad down with too many instructions. I said ideally it would be best to try and take a sit, but if you have to lead then take him to the front. Vlad used his initiative and took him to the front and although he did hang out it was a good strong win.”

Better Be The One

More Than Ready (Southern Halo - Woodman’s Girl, by Woodman) may have another terrific staying prospect on his hands after Pergrada (More Than Ready - Dansino, by Danehill) scored a nine-length win at Hawkesbury on Thursday.

The Clarry Conners-trained mare made the Rolling Stone Landscapes Handicap (2000m) a one-act affair in the straight. Pergrada could have won by a dozen lengths had jockey Corey Brown wished.

Conners said he would find a Sydney city race for Pergrada before a possible trip to Melbourne for races during the spring carnival.

Pergrada is a half-sister to the stakes-winning stayer Zagreb (Zabeel - Dansino, by Danehill). The mare also comes from the same family as the Group 1 winner Leica Smile (At Talaq - Leica Western, by Best Western) and the Group 2 winner Moon Dragon (Danehill - Leica Vista, by Sir Tristram).

Pergrada is bred on the same More Than Ready - Danehill cross as Group 1 winners Dreamaway (More Than Ready - Legal Consent, by Danehill), Perfectly Ready (More Than Ready - Elle Duccio, by Danehill) and Mannington (More Than Ready - Mannington, by Danehill).

The Gai Waterhouse-trained Landing (More Than Ready - Joy Of Flight, by Flying Spur) completed a double for More Than Ready at Hawkesbury in the Wizz Electrical Services Maiden (1200m).

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Vinery stallion More Than Ready (USA) sired three city winners on Wednesday, headed by a double at Warwick Farm when Prinsengracht sprang a $51 surprise when he scored on debut in the $27,000 Lansvale Maiden over 1300 metres and Champing, winner of the $27,000 Benchmark 75 Handicap over 1100 metres.

Prinsengracht (4 g More Than Ready – True Confession, by Naturalism) came with a good sprint in the home straight to defeat Baranski by three-quarters of a length.

Trainer Anthony Cummings explained that Prinsengracht was a horse that had needed some time but that he had a good opinion of the 4yo. “I’m not sure where their sights are set but I think his long-term aims are a lot higher than today.”

Down at Betfair Park Huegill (3 c More Than Ready – Trust Antonia, by National Assembly) was warming to the task late on when wearing down Rescue Mission to win by one and a quarter lengths in the $30,000 PFD Food Services 3yo Handicap over 1400 metres.

“He got no favours. He got pushed off the track down the hill and on the turn,” trainer Peter Moody said “He’s a very good colt and still learning what it’s all about. There are some good races in him.”

“He (Huegill) should be going to a Listed race at Flemington on Sunday week and then probably going to the paddock because he’s the sort of horse who could win the Australian Guineas in the autumn. Whether he’s mature enough in the brain to be going to the Caulfield Guineas is questionable but what will make that decision easier is seeing these other horses run.”

Last year’s Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale topper, Godspeed (Redoute’s Choice - Regrowth, by Unbridled’s Song) finally broke through for his first win at Monday’s Mornington meeting.

Godspeed fetched $1.875 million at the 2010 Newmarket sale but a lack of maturity consigned the colt to defeats at his first four starts. The three-year-old had two runs as a juvenile as part of the Gerald Ryan stable in Sydney before connections shifted the colt south to join the Peter Moody yard.

Godspeed led all the way to claim the MRC Events Maiden Plate (1527m) at his fifth start. Moody said the colt has had excuses for his defeats but had plenty to learn before reaching his potential.

“He needed that for his confidence as he copped a battering at Flemington and before that didn’t like the wet first up,” Moody told TVN.

“He’ll be a very nice mile or a mile-and-a-quarter horse in time. Whether that’s this preparation or in the autumn, I’m not sure.

“With a colt like this, from the day they are born they get wrapped in cotton wool and they get to think they are a bit special.

“we have to teach them to toughen up and get down in the gutter and get a bit dirty. He’s done that today and it will be all forward for him from now.”

Godspeed is a half-brother to the Group 3 winner Colour (More Than Ready - Regrowth, by Unbridled’s Song). The colt also comes from the same family as Golden Slipper winner Forensics (Flying Spur - Prove It, by Dehere) and stallions Snippets (Lunchtime - Easy Date, by Grand Chaudiere), Zizou (Fusaichi Pegasus - Singles Bar, by Rory’s Jester) and Not A Single Doubt (Redoute’s Choice - Singles Bar, by Rory’s Jester).

John Singleton’s homebred More Strawberries (4 m More Than Ready - Milva, by Strawberry Road) registered a first-up win in Thursday’s $100,000 Listed Patinack Farm Tibbie Stakes (1400m).

Positioned in behind the leading group soon after the start by Nash Rawiller, More Strawberries was there to pounce in the home straight but had to squeeze through a tiny gap to give chase. Once in the open she sprinted clear, going on to defeat the fast finishing Skyerush (Super Jet) by a neck. Sweetest Melody (Encosta de Lago), a stablemate of the winner, was a head away third.

“She’ll improve from what she did today thereís no doubt about that,” winning jockey Nash Rawiller said. ”She showed plenty of tenacity because she was pretty tired the last 100 (metres) but she kept giving which is really good to see in a mare like her.”

The Group I Epsom Handicap over 1600m at Randwick on October 1 is the next race for More Strawberries according to Singleton’s Racing Manager Duncan Grimley.

“She looks like sheís come back as well as she went out last time and thatís a good springboard for the spring.”  Grimley said. “After 1400 (metres) today the Epsom would be the logical step for her. She’s down in the weights with 52kg).”