Off the back of some consistent form, the multiple stakes placed Magnus gelding Magnaspin broke through for his first black type victory, winning the Listed MRC Victoria Gold Cup (2000m) and taking his earnings past $1m for Bennett Racing.

Really coming into her own last time in with back to back stakes victories highlighted by an almost six length victory in the G2 MRC Sandown Guineas (1600m), Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman’s Sheza Albi returned in emphatic fashion on Saturday, winning the $300,000 G2 MRC Angus Armanasco Stakes (1400m).