Talented Deep Field filly Xilong put the writing on the wall with a desperately close third in a stakes race at Flemington during the Cup Carnival and atoned for that narrow loss with a resounding win in the Listed MRC Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) at Sandown on Saturday.
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She led all the way for Luke Currie and kicked strongy to the line to win by a length and a quarter taking her overall record to four wins from six starts with prizemoney topping $213,000.
"I've always thought of her as a Group-class filly and the Sangster Stakes, the Group I for fillies and mares in Adelaide in May, I think she's talented enough to run in that," Tony McEvoy said.
"With a break now, I think she will come back even better, and although that is high, that's what I think of her."
Xilong was a stunning yearling
Newgate Farm sold a Snitzel filly from Pane in the Glass for $300,000 at Inglis Easter this year and she has a yearling filly to follow by Capitalist. Pane in the Glass has foaled this spring to another of the young Newgate Farm sires in Russian Revolution producing a filly.
Xilong is the third stakes-winner for Deep Field, who is Australia’s leading second crop sire by winners and stands at Newgate at a fee of $44,000.
