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El Castello crowned his unbeaten start to his three-year-old season with a sublime victory in the G1 Spring Champion Stakes and will run favourite in the Group i VRC Victoria Derby on Saturday..

El Castello is the latest G1 winner bred and sold by Cambridge Stud - image Steve Hart

The Cambridge Stud-bred three-year-old posted a resuming maiden success last month before a midway win and then stepped up to black type company to land top honours in the G3 Gloaming Stakes.

The son of Castelvecchio had no trouble bridging the gap to the highest level in the 2000 metre age group feature at Randwick in the hands of regular rider Josh Parr.

“He’s just a very good horse and the preparation went perfectly, everything worked out and I still think he improves again,” trainer Anthony Cummings said.

El Castello was quickly into stride to lope along near the pace and held a strong gallop to the post after striking the front 250 metres from home.“He switched off in the middle stages and he’s always up for the challenge,” said Cummings.

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“We’ve got to get him home and make sure that he’s okay and tick a fair few boxes before we do that, but that is the plan.”

The Randwick horseman purchased El Castello out of our draft at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale for A$220,000 with his dam the Fastnet Rock mare Word Games.

She is a half-sister to Fiveandahalfstar, who Cummings prepared to claim top-flight titles in the BMW Stakes and the VRC Derby and also trained his sire Hotel Grand to win the Spring Champion and the G1 Randwick Guineas.

Word Games produced a half-sister by Almanzor to El Castello last season and recently produced another filly by our son of Wootton Bassett before visiting Chaldean.

Half-sister by Almanzor (FR) to El Castello.

In other exciting news from Cambridge Stud star mare Probabeel delivered a stunning filly by Snitzel.

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