Race Synopsis:This G1 at WFA over 1400m saw an easy win again for the Australian bred Avantage that has now won the three G1 sprints this season and is winning by more and more as the season goes by telling you the depth is not there and never has been. The 5yo mare today was handy wide early and went up second the outer and sat there a length back at the 1000m and was half a length away turning for home. She quickly led at the 350m and then cleared out to win by three and a half lengths in the slick time of 1:20.87, the fourth fastest time ever behind Mrs. Select (9 wins and she ran 1:20.60 in 1992) then the Courier Bay (17 wins (four at G1) and ran 1:20.83 in 1987) and Sacred Star (9 wins (twice at G1) and ran 1:20.81 in 2015). The winners and where they came from on the home turn were led (on the fence and a length clear), fourth (four-off the inside and two and a half lengths from the leader), led (one-off the inside and a neck in front), sixth (five-off the inside and three lengths from the leader), fifth (six-off the inside and four lengths from the leader), second (two-off the inside and half a length from the leader), third (on the fence and a length and a half from the leader), fourth (one-off the inside and three lengths from the leader) and fourth (one-off the inside and a length and a length and a half from the leader). Advantage is making a mockery of the G1 NZ form and has now had seven successes at the highest level and won fourteen of her twenty four outings. She has been to Australia four times for a win on a bog at G3 as a 3yo filly and a third at G2 the following month then ran at G3 and G2 as a 4yo and was a well beaten eight of ten and also a seventh of nine. The 5yo mare has won from 800m to 2000m and is clearly thriving in the current weak environment where field depth and meeting a range of new horses seems few and far between She second rated this mostly poor lot and her only realistic threat Levanter blew the start by six lengths so the race was all over at the jump. Second home was the 4yo male Call sign Mad that when he won his lone G1 race in the Spring of 2020 that day third home was Advantage showing the same horses keep meeting each other and the depth is more than dubious. Today he race sixth the outer then came up wide near the home turn and ran on well albeit distantly at the post. Third home was Mascarpone that finally got a draw and the 4yo male raced fifth the inner then once angled off was third at the 200m and then second at the 150m before losing that spot the last 5m. Travelling Light was fourth beaten almost six and a half lengths after racing third the inner and having every possible chance. The 4yo mare won a G1 as a 3yo filly but has looked substandard this season so far. Fifth home was the only other runner in the betting bar the winner in Levante that stood in the stalls and lost about six lengths and her chips were all in and lost immediately. The 4yo mare caught the field quickly but was still last across the top to the home turn and she ran on strongly wider out but was still beaten over seven lengths. She would have run second if away properly as the winner deadest bolted in. New York jazz was next home and fought on from eighth on settling but was beaten almost nine lengths. Gino Severini was next home a smidgen behind New York Jazz. The next trio home were beaten over nine and a quarter lengths and up to over eleven lengths while the last finisher Its Destinys Child was last beaten almost eighteen lengths. This was a poor field overall and second and third should have run third and fourth but Levante blew the start and any chance she had. Avantage has in New Zealand alone won thirteen of her twenty outings and in five other G1 starts has run four placings and a fourth showing the depth is non-existent in the current climate. The domination of female gallopers in New Zealand has been for more than this century so far and started with the late great Sunline in 1999.