Jockey Dwayne Dunn is looking at a fifth Blue Diamond Stakes win following the winning debut of Mama’s Choice (2 f Redoute’s Choice - Red Hot Mama, by General Nediym) in the $100,000 Listed Chairmans Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

“I’ve had six goes [at the Blue Diamond] for four wins and two thirds so it’d be nice to put another one up there.” Dunn said after Mama’s Choice had flown home from last into the straight to defeat Formidable (Strada) with Jimando (Commands), the $2.30 favourite, third.

“She’s got a good pedigree and I picked her out of the paddock about eight months ago so let’s hope it’s a Blue Diamond winner.”

“We’ll be right in it [the Blue Diamond] I’d say, we’ve hit form at the right time, often in this era, it never happened in the old era, Diamond winners step out around now.” Hayes said.

“I hadn’t been winning many two-year-old races this year. In a normal year I would’ve gone into the race roaring confident but having run so many placings I just thought maybe my team of horses are a little bit off the mark.”

“I’m happy and relieved that one’s stepped up at the right time.”

The full-brother to Gr 1 winner Melito topped a strong day of trade on Friday at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale on Friday when selling to trainer Gerald Ryan for $750,000.

“There’s a lot to like about him,” Ryan said. ”He is very athletic and is a good mover. I wasn’t sure whether I’d buy him or not until I saw him out the back there just before he went into the ring. I looked at him and thought - he’s a good horse - just buy him, so I did.”

Redoute's Choice - Cloister colt

“Melito was a top mare for the stable and she’s now at stud and in foal. This bloke looks a more early type than his sister - so he could certainly be one for the race next year.”

Offered by Reavill Farm, the October 13 foaled colt is the eighth foal out of the Debutante Stakes winner Cloister (Marauding)

Gai Waterhouse and James Harron continued their buying with a number of top purchases today including the More Than Ready-Aqua D’Amore colt for $680,000.

Colts by Sebring (ex Valda Merceda for $450,000) and Fastnet Rock (ex Allow for $400,000) also proved popular with buyers.

The sale gross has now reached almost $52 million after three sessions at an average price of $127,684 for 407 lots sold with the  clearance rate at 84 per cent.

Today was pretty much like yesterday,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. ”There was some spirited bidding around the complex and it’s great to see the clearance rate at 84 per cent - that is quite phenomenal.”

“We’ve got a lovely line up in tomorrow night’s fourth session and hopefully that clearance will hold strongly.”

The fourth session of the sale will be held from 6pm (Qld time) Saturday following the $4.3 million Magic Millions Raceday at the neighbouring Gold Coast Turf Club.

The first session of the 2012 BMW Magic Millions Yearling Sale got off to a steady start with colts by champion Arrowfield Stud sire Redoute’s Choice topping the leaderboard with two sales of $450,000 each.

Gai Waterhouse signed for the Redoute’s Choice colt out of the juvenile Stakes winner I Got Chills in conjunction with Sydney-based bloodstock agent James Harron, the pair seated at a table inside the auditorium.

Lot 36: Redoute's Choice - I Got Chills colt

The second foal of I Got Chills, a daughter of General Nediym, will form part of a syndicate formed to buy several colts at the sale Waterhouse said.

“You have got to be here to be buying these horses, every year I come here and look at the names on the barns and there are about a third of them we have bought.It is a most remarkable sale because the horse puts themselves here - not the vendor, the horse,” she added.

Later in the day the Redoute’s Choice-Miss Jakeo colt offered by Baramul Stud was purchased for Kevin Maloney’s Segenhoe Stud. Originally passed in, the colt was sold not long after.

On a day of steady trade, $14.75 million changed hands on 124 yearlings who sold at an average price of almost $119,000 - down slightly on last year’s figures. The clearance rate of 75 per cent was identical to the corresponding session last year.

“We’re pretty happy with how things are sitting after the first session,” Magic Millions Managing Director Vin Cox said. ”People have been telling us that many of the better horses are still to come over the next couple of days so the figures will hopefully rise.

“The average price is down about 5 per cent - but last year we had a top price on day one of $850,000. One of the pleasing aspects was seeing the median price rise from $95,000 in session one last year to $100,000 today as well as the number of domestic buyers that have appeared on the list. I would be surprised if we don’t have more sales during the week that surpass todays’s top price.”

The second session of the sale will commence at 11am (Qld time) today.

Checks (4 g Redoute’s Choice - Leica Or Not, by Kendor) added to a rich family history when winning his Maiden at Bairnsdale in Victoria on Monday.

Bred and raced by Bob Scarborough, Checks burst through the stalls and had to be re-plated but it made little difference as Checks proved too good, defeating Still Be Happy by half a length in the $12,000 Whelans Earthmoving Maiden Plate (1200m).

Like his Group 1 winning three-quarter brother Light Fantastic, Checks is trained by Mick Price and in addition to the Australian Guineas winner he is also a half-brother to the New Zealand Derby winner Leica Guv and to the Gr 3 Janz National Stakes heroine Lectrice.

A half-sister to the dual Gr 1 Doncaster Handicap winner Pharoah, Leica Or Not has foaled a filly this season by Bel Esprit.

Champion sire Redoute’s Choice has now sired 560 winners around the world with 20 at Group 1 level.

A field of 14 has accepted for the major lead-up to the Group 2 Perth Cup (2400m), Saturday’s Group 2 C B Cox Stakes (Gr 2, 2200m) at Ascot.

The Patinack Farm-owned Saint Encosta (Encosta De Lago - St Katherine, by Barathea) is the sole eastern states representative in the Cox Stakes. The five-year-old earned the right to press on to the Perth Cup with his eye-catching second in the Listed J R A Trophy at Ascot on December 3.

The J R A Trophy winner Veracious (Systematic - Royal Lace, by Serheed) is not among the Cox Stakes acceptors but Saint Encosta will clash again with the fourth placegetter Double Barrel (Musketeer - Irwind, by Haulpak).

Below is the field for the Group 2 C B Cox Stakes at Ascot.

A field of 15 has accepted for Saturday’s Group 1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot, which is the final Group 1 race in Australia for 2011.

Australia and New Zealand have hosted 31 Group 1 races to date this season. Fastnet Rock (Danehill - Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) has produced the winners of four Group 1 race in the first half of the 2011/12 term but does not have a runner in the Kingston Town Classic.

Vinery Stud stallion Testa Rossa (Perugino - Bo Dapper, by Sir Dapper) has the chance to win his second Perth Group 1 race in a fortnight. Ortensia (Testa Rossa - Aerate’s Pick, by Picnicker) claimed the newly-promoted Winterbottom Stakes (1200m) while Ranger can atone for a luckless Railway Stakes run in the Kingston Town Classic.

Bradbury’s Luck (Redoute’s Choice - Skating, by At Talaq) scored his first Group 1 win as a sire in controversial fashion when Luckygray (Bradbury’s Luck - Damah Lady, by Mukaddamah) won the Railway Stakes on protest on November 19. Luckygray will have a chance to show his Railway Strakes win was no fluke.

Below is the final field for Saturday’s $500,000 Group 1 Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot. Perth Racing will conduct the barrier draw for the weight-for-age race on Wednesday.

Triple Group 1 winner Serenade Rose (Stravinsky - Rose Of Tralee, by Sadler’s Wells) produced her first winner as a broodmare just weeks after her untimely death.

Serenade Rose won eight of her 19 starts in a stellar career, which yielded wins in the 2005 VRC Oaks (2500m), AJC Australian Oaks (2400m) and Arrowfield Stud Stakes (2000m) in a wonderful three-year-old season.

Darley bought the mare once her racing days were over. The breeding operation sent Serenade Rose to champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) for her first mating in 2008.

The mating produced Outdoor (Redoute’s Choice - Serenade Rose, by Stravinsky). Outdoor’s trainer Anthony Freedman gave the filly time to develop, saving her until her three-year-old season with his patience paying dividends after Outdoor won the D Clapp Good Guys Maiden (1300m) at Bendigo in a canter.

Outdoor’s success continued Redoute’s Choice amazing start to the season. The Arrowfield champion has produced 70 individual winners from 167 runners with the sire’s progeny winning 93 races in the first third of the 2011/12 season.

Interestingly, seven of Redoute’s Choice’s winners this season have carried the Darley colours to victory.

Serenade Rose produced a Street Cry filly in 2010 while Lonhro provided her final foal, a colt, in 2011.

Exciting colt Barbados (Redoute’s Choice - Virage De Fortune, by Anabaa) made a small repayment on a massive investment with his win in the Styletread Maiden Plate (1100m) at Canterbury.

Darley paid $3.4 million for Barbados’s  multiple Group 1-winning dam Virage De Fortune (Anabaa - Virage, by Kenmare) while the mare was in foal to Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) at the 2007 Inglis Broodmare Sale.

Darley’s huge outlay set an Australian record for the highest-priced broodmare sold at a public auction. Milanova (Danehill - L’On Vite, by Secretariat) and Samantha Miss (Redoute’s Choice - Milliyet, by Zabeel) have since surpassed that mark.

Barbados finished second on a heavy track in July but showed vastly improved racing manners to control the race from the front before strolling to a 1-1/4 length win.

“Peter has worked hard on educating him and this time in he’s a different horse. He’s more relaxed,” Darley’s stable foreman Brad Widdup said.

“It was also good to see him kick in the straight when a horse came to him. It shows he’s got a bit of ticker too.”

Mystic Hour (Redoute’s Choice - Fatal Attraction, by Zabeel) completed a double for the Arrowfield Stud sire with her win in the J G Matthews Memorial Handicap (2003m) at Pinjarra.

The manner of Black Caviar’s (Bel Esprit - Helsinge, by Desert Sun) success proved little but the darling of the Australian turf scored her 16^th straight win in effortless fashion in Saturday’s Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington.

Black Caviar has already monstered half of the field in previous meetings but faced three Peter Moody-trained stablemates for the first time in a race.

The daughter of Eliza Park sire (Royal Academy - Bespoken, by Vain) effectively ended the $1 million event as a contest when she jumped smartly to settle inside the early leader Buffering (Mossman - Action Annie, by Anabaa) .

 Jockey Luke Nolen merely changed his grip on the reins, allowing Black Caviar enough latitude to cruise four lengths clear of her opposition at the 200 metres before easing her down over the last 50 metres, letting Buffering remain within three lengths on the post.

“She’s got the job done again and it is a great relief to see her do it again,” Moody said. “She can only race what is there. They are all Group horses behind her but once again, she has toyed with them.

“She runs time doing it. She is just one hell of a horse.”

The Patinack Farm Classic was Black Caviar’s seventh Group 1 win and the five-year-old’s second successive win in the Flemington feature.

Hawkes Racing will produce a half-brother to Black Caviar by Patinack Farm sire Casino Prince (Flying Spur - Lady Capel, by Last Tycoon) later in the season while Helsinge (Desert Sun - Scandinavia, by Snippets) foaled a Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) filly in 2010 and a filly from the same sire earlier this year.

Coolmore Stud sires will take a handy lead into the final day of Flemington’s famous four-day carnival at Saturday’s Emirates Stakes meeting.

Coolmore’s band of stallions has won five of the 28 races contested to date of the first three days of the Flemington carnival. The Fastnet Rock (Danehill - Piccadilly Circus, by Royal Academy) filly Mosheen (Fastnet Rock - Sumehra, by Stravinsky) provided the stud’s highlight of the carnival to date with her win in the Group 1 VRC Oaks (2500m).

Mosheen posted a nine-length success in the $1 million event. The ease of her win left the connections of Atlantic Jewel (Fastnet Rock - Regard, by Zabeel) wondering what might have been after the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) had trounced Mosheen at their previous meetings.

Atlantic Jewel missed the VRC Oaks with a pulled hamstring.

Darley sires have won three races over the carnival. The outstanding Elusive Quality colt Sepoy (Elusive Quality - Watchful, by Danehill) won the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes while Exceed And Excel (Danehill - Patrona, by Lomond) produced his first two-year-old winner of the season when Applegate (Exceed And Excel - Klamath Falls, by Storm Cat).

Arrowfield’s gun sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has carried the NSW operation during the Flemington carnival with two successes. Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy) claimed the Group 2 Salinger Stakes (1200m) while Galah (Redoute’s Choice - Rinky Dink, by Distorted Humor) won the Group 3 Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) on the opening day of the four-day festival.

Burgundy (3 c Redoute’s Choice – Grand Echezeaux, by Zabeel) looked all class when winning the Ekraar Canterbury Stakes (Listed, 1600m) at Riccarton yesterday to become the 80th stakes winner for his champion sire. Leaving the gates smartly, Burgundy then proceeded to lead all the way and he won easing down by one and a quarter lengths over last start stakes winner Shuka (Bachelor Duke).

Te Akau trainer Jason Bridgman declared himself satisfied with the win. “He got the job done,” he told Trackside television. “The ground was far from ideal for him and he coped with it on class. You’ll see this horse at his best on good footing. He jumped so fast from the gates – he just really wants to be there and just loves it. He was so relaxed beforehand and horses only jump like that when they really want to race.”

The three-quarter brother to multiple Gr 1 winner Darci Brahma sold for $1.3 million to Te Akau Racing’s David Ellis at the 2010 NZB Premier Yearling Sale, from the draft of Pencarrow Stud and is out of the Gr 1 Australasian Oaks winner Grand Echezeaux.

A stunning debut from the Darley-owned filly Sindarin (Redoute’s Choice - Eldarin, by Marauding) has paved the way for a midweek double for Arrowfield Stud’s champion stallion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad).

Sindarin missed the start before scoring a convincing win in the Bar Coluzzi Darlinghurst Handicap (1300m) at the Randwick Kensington meeting. Jockey Corey Brown held his nerve while the race unfolded before bringing the three-year-old down the middle of the track to score by a long head.

Sindarin is a sister to the Group 3 winner Mearas (Redoute’s Choice - Eldarin, by Marauding). Eldarin (Marauding - Voltage, by Whiskey Road) is a daughter of the terrific producer Voltage (Whiskey Road - Electric Belle, by Sovereign Edition).

Sindarin comes from the same family as the Group 1 winners Drum (Marauding - Voltage, by Whiskey Road), Grand Armee (Hennessy - Tambour, by Marauding) and Dealer Principal (Flying Spur - Volte, by Marauding).

Tropicana Girl (Redoute’s Choice - Get Around, by Xaar) completed Redoute’s Choice’s double at The Randwick Kensington meeting. The Chris Waller-trained mare held off the males in the Peters Meats Handicap (1500m).

Redoute’s Choice has sired 55 individual winners. The champion stallion has produced the winners of 69 races.

Arrowfield Stud sires teamed up for a big day on Saturday with six winners at the day’s Melbourne and Sydney meetings.

The Darley-owned colt Galah (Redoute’s Choice - Rinky Dink, by Distorted Humor) gave Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) his 79th individual stakes winner when he charged home from last to claim the Listed Lightway Australia Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.

Master trainer Bart Cummings produced Flying Spur (Danehill - Rolls, by Mr Prospector) filly Gliding (Flying Spur - Marrego, by Marscay) to win the Listed Ethereal Stakes (2000m).  The half-sister to the outstanding galloper Eremein (Timber Country - Marrego, by Marscay) began a double for Flying Spur, which concluded when Satin Shoes (Flying Spur - Star Satire, by Volksraad) won the Carlton Draught Plate (1100m).

Sabrage (Charge Forward - Galroof, by Maroof) as a Group 1 Victoria Derby contender with his success in the Group 3 Norman Robinson Stakes (2000m) to complete a quartet of successes in Melbourne.

Rosehill trainer Gerald Ryan produced a pair of Snitzel (Redoute’s Choice - Snippet’s Lass, by Snippets) gallopers to win at Randwick. Hot Snitzel (Snitzel - Flames Of Paris, by Blushing Groom) earned the sire his sixth stakes win with his success in the Listed Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m) while Amorino (Snitzel - Steal My Love, by Marauding provided the stallion with a two-year-old success in the City Tattersalls Plate (1000m).

The Rick Hore-Lacy-trained Chase The Rainbow (Dash For Cash - Illusional, by Redoute’s Choice) booked himself a berth in a pair of Group 1 features with his comprehensive success in the Group 2 Bill Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.

Chase The Rainbow circled his rivals to win the Bill Stutt Stakes from the tail of the field. Hore-Lacy said the stylish grey would run in the Group 1 Caulfield Guineas (1600m) on Saturday week before tackling the Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) two starts later.

Hore-Lacy prepared the terrific racehorse and subsequent champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) to win the Caulfield Guineas in 1999. Redoute’s Choice is the damsire of Chase The Rainbow.

Hore-Lacy also won the Group 1 Australian Guineas with Chase The Rainbow’s sire Dash For Cash (Secret Savings - Gulistan, by Rubiton). The Caulfield trainer is confident he has the horse to upset the Sydney dominance of this season’s three-year-old ranks.

Hore-Lacy paid $90,000 for Chase The Rainbow at the Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale in 2010.

”He’s a horse that has interested me from day one and being by Dash For Cash out of a Redoute’s Choice, he’s kept interesting me,” Hore-Lacy said.

The beautifully bred Tumble Turn (3 f Redoute’s Choice - Freestyle) confirmed the high opinion of trainer Paul messara with an impressive victory in the $27,000 SGE Credit Union Handicap (1200m) for 3yo fillies at Canterbury on Wednesday.

Tumble Turn came into the race off the back of a last start 7th of 8 in the listed Heritage Stakes to Karuta Queen, but she relished tthe easier class  yesterday to score by two and a half lengths.

“We thought she could take the next step last time, Paul sort of threw her in the deep end a bit and she struck a bit of interference, probably should have finished fourth or fifth, beaten five lengths by Karuta Queen, instead of 7.8; that stood up well today and she does have ability,” Messara’s representative Barry Whintel, explained.

“She is only lightly framed so she will be better in the autumn. She did a good job here, she had to make up ground on a track that it is not easy to do.”

Out of the Group winning mare Freestyle, Tumble Turn is owned by her breeders, Arrowfield Pastoral Syndicate (Mgr: J M Messara), Planette Thoroughbred Trading Syndicate (Mgr: J Leaver) and Belford Productions Syndicate (Mgr: A Jones).

Arrowfield Stud’s champion sire Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) has genuine winning chances in three of the four Group 1 race on Randwick’s big Epsom Handicap card.

Redoute’s Choice has made a lightning start to the 2011-12 season. The stallion has produced 47 winners of 53 races in the first two months of the new term, including four Group 2 victors and a winner at Group 3 level.

Rekindled Alliance (Redoute’s Choice - Rekindled Affair, by Rainbow Quest) and Godspeed (Redoute’s Choice - Regrowth, by Unbridled’s Song) will represent the sire in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes (2000m). King’s Rose (Redoute’s Choice - Nureyev’s Girl, by Nureyev) is the Arrowfield resident’s main hope in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m).

The David Payne-trained Florentina (Redoute’s Choice - Celebria, by Peintre Celebre) will attempt to provide the stallion a win in the Group 1 Flight Stakes.

Redoute’s Choice does not have a representative in the Group 1 Metropolitan (2400m) but the Starcraft (Soviet Star - Flying Floozie, by Pompeii Court) mare Crafty Irna (Starcraft - Zirna, by Deputy Governor) will represent Arrowfield Stud sires in the $400,000 event.

Click here for the fields for all four Group 1 races at Saturday’s Randwick meeting.

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).

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).

Arrowfield Stud recorded a stakes treble for the second successive Saturday, including a Group 3 double at Caulfield for the Hunter Valley operation.

Arrowfield’s champion Redoute’s Choice (Danehill - Shantha’s Choice, by Canny Lad) shouldered the load for the stud with all three stakes winners last Saturday. Redoute’s Choice was among the winners again when Sister Madly (Redoute’s Choice - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy) claimed the Group 3 How Now Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield.

Sister Madly made a winning debut for the John Sadler stable after Segenhoe Stud paid $1 million for the Group 1-placed mare at the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale earlier this year.

“It’s terrific, we’ve only just started this relationship with Segenhoe - Kevin Maloney,” Sadler said.

“He paid a lot of money for her as a broodmare and gave her to us up in Brisbane and asked us through racing manager Bill Mitchell whether we should go on and give her another campaign or head to stud.”

“She showed us that we should go on with her as she’s shown here today.”

A half-sister to Hong King legend Silent Witness (El Moxie - Jade Tiara, by Bureaucracy), Saturday’s win was Sister Madly’s third from 14 starts.

Earlier, Bliss Street (Flying Spur - Jade Diva, by Jade Robbery charged home to dead-heat for first with another Arrowfield Stud sire’s progeny Celebrity Girl (Starcraft - Dashing Granada, by Keltrice) before a protest left her as the sole winner of the Group 3 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield.

Arrowfield sires produced the quinella to the $125,000 race when stewards promoted Hallowell Belle (Starcraft - Bella Inez, by Beautiful Crown) to second while relegating Celebrity Girl to fourth.

Karuta Queen (Not A Single Doubt - Card Queen, by Final Card) completed Arrowfield’s treble with an all-the-way win in the Listed Heritage Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill.

Tough three-year-old Darci Be Good (Darci Brahma - You Can’t Say That, by Fusaichi Pegasus) has provided his sire Darci Brahma (Danehill - Grand Echezeaux, by Zabeel) the biggest success of his young career in Wednesday’s Group 3 Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle.

Darci Be Good became The Oaks Stud resident’s first stakes winner when the Bede Murray-trained gelding took out the Listed Fernhill Stakes (1600m) during the Sydney autumn carnival. Darci Be Good’s gallant performance gave Darci Brahma his first Group win as a sire.

Jockey Glen Boss positioned Darci Be Good close to the speed before the three-year-old outslugged the lightly-raced Rekindled Alliance (Redoute’s Choice - Rekindled Affair, by Rainbow Quest) to win by a neck.

Murray said the win earned Darci Be Good a chance for a shot at Group 1 level in the Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick on October 1.

“He is very strong at the finish,” Murray said. “The further he goes, the better he is going to be.

“He will definitely go to the Spring Champion (Stakes) and then he will be having a break.

“He will definitely be a lovely autumn horse and our plan was always to do it this way.”

Darci Be Good was passed in at $50,000 at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.

Darci Be Good’s win capped a terrific Wednesday for the Group 1-winning mare Grand Echezeaux (Zabeel - Richebourg, by Vice Regal) after Burgundy (Redoute’s Choice - Grand Echezeaux, by Zabeel) became the third of the mare’s progeny to win from three to race at Wednesday’s Taupo meeting.

Burgundy won the Battle Paint Maiden (1200m) to instantly begin repaying his $NZ1.3 million purchase price.