After encouraging placings in lower grades at his last four prior starts, former Singapore-trained El Don broke through with a win here, his first at stakes level. He settled nicely in fourth place, on the rails from his inside barrier, took a split to challenge at the 300m and then kept fighting gamely to grab a narrow but good win in a solid staying effort. High Bridge raced in seventh place (on the rails), got along the inner at the home turn, hit the front at the 200m, only to be caught nearing the post for (short head) second. Azuro settled back in ninth place, improved between runners at the home turn, finally got into clear running at the 200m and then ran on really well under his top weight (60kg) for a closeup third, looking unlucky. The favourite Secret Blaze disappointed in advancing to 2800m here. Second last in the 11-runner field, he made a short-lived wide move on straightening and then battled for (5.4 lengths) eighth.