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Top Echelon; Thorn Park, Conatus; I Am Invincible; Hinchinbrook; Stratum; Testa Rossa; Dream, Ahead

• VETERAN 8YO sprinter Our Boy Malachi defied his age to edge closer to $1 million prizemoney with a last to first win in the G2 Caulfield Sprint on Saturday.

The former north Queensland sprinter with a big cult took his record to 19 wins and three placings from 26 starts with his prize money now totalling $946,400.

He has won three Group races since he came from Queensland to join the Hawkes stable and was racing second-up after a close second in G2 Shorts when resuming at Randwick.

Our Boy Malachi (Top Echelon x Rusticate by Rustic Amber) is the only stakes winner and one of seven winners out of his winning dam Rusticate.

He is the only stakes winner in three generations but the champion Kingston Town (Bletchingly), does appear as he is a son of his fourth dam Ada Hunter (Andrea Mantegna).

Our Boy Malachi is the last foal produced by Rusticate who was dropped from the Australian Stud Book in 2011.

• CLASSY Karaka graduate Spieth recorded his first Listed success with a barnstorming performance in Saturday’s $150,000 City Tattersall’s Lightning at Randwick.

Trainer Bryce Heys suggested that Spieth may now go to Flemington for either the G1 Darley Classic or a G2 sprint during Melbourne Cup week.

“I'm excited about where this horse goes next, but I'll let him get over this first,” Heys said.

By Thorn Park from Titus Livius mare Stella Livia, Spieth was bred in New Zealand by Trelawney Stud.

Heys bought him out of Trelawney’s draft at the 2014 NZB Karaka Premier Sale for $200,000, a figure he has now recouped from five wins in his first eight starts.

He is the 27th stakes winner by late sire Thorn Park (Spinning World).

• SYDNEY-trained mare Palazzo Pubblico recorded her second stakes win with a first-up victory in the Listed Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield.

The five-year-old daughter of Conatus is trained by Matthew Smith for her breeder Gerry Harvey, a devoted supporter of the sire.

Palazzo Pubblico has won seven of her 19 starts including the Listed Bright Shadow Stakes at Doomben last season.

• YARRAMAN Park sires I Am Invincible and Hinchinbrook added notable wins on Saturday at Randwick and Caulfield.

I Am invincible’s quality sprinter Voodoo Lad landed his third stakes win for the Darren Weir stable in the G3 Moonga Stakes at Caulfield.

The five-year-old, who started his career at Scone in NSW, has progressed to the top level with two Listed wins and a G1 placing in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes preceding Saturday’s win.

A trip to Perth is now being considered for the G1 Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot on November 29.

Hinchinbrook’s progeny landed a double at Randwick with exciting 3YO filly Spright and promising two-year-old Madame Moustache.

The Garry Frazer-trained Spright (Hinchinbrook x Dashoff by Dash For Cash) took a big leap in class in the Listed Brian Crowley Stakes in her stride straight off a midweek maiden win.

She became the seventh stakes winner by Hinchinbrook when she beat a strong field of well-performed colts and is now set to head to Melbourne for a G3 race over 1100m at Flemington on Oaks Day.

Spright was placed four times without a win last season including a third in the G3 Percy Sykes Stakes at Randwick.

Madame Moustache gave trainer Chris Waller his second win in the first five 2YO races of the Sydney season with her narrow win in the Victory Vein Plate with both winners by Yarraman Park sires.

Waller won his first ever spring 2YO race in Sydney last week with Luiza (I Am Invincible) in the Kirkham Plate at Randwick.

• CLASSY Stratum mare Egyptian Symbol became the 31st stakes winner for her late sire with an impressive first-up win in the G3 Nivision Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Stratum died of a heart attack last month at the age of 14 at Widden Stud in NSW.

The 4YO Egyptian Symbol is out of the G1 mare Our Egyptian Raine (Desert Sun).

• THE Will Clarken-trained Cavaloce became the 58th stakes winner for Testa Rossa when she won the Listed Durbridge Stakes at Morphettville in a boost for her owners Bell View Stud.

The 6YO Cavaloce (Testa Rossa x Refit by Encosta De Lago) was purchased by Bell View Stud earlier this year but decided to keep her racing rather than send her to stud this season and may now seek a stakes win in Melbourne.

The 20-year-old Testa Rossa remains a popular sire and already boasts the winners of 18 races this season.

Cavaloce was first sold for $56,000 as a foal in 2011 broke the 1400m record at Morphettville last season before she was purchased by Bell View Stud.

Her dam Refit is a half-sister to G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Reactive and she has 2yo filly by Foxwedge and a colt by Smart Missile.

• DREAM Ahead filly Dream Kisses became the first second crop winner for her sire when she won the 2YO event at Eagle Farm on Saturday to put herself on the path to a Magic Millions start.

The Steve O’Dea filly, the first runner from Dream Ahead’s second local crop, overcame a couple of mishaps to land the 1000m race after finishing second on debut earlier in the month.

Like many of Dream Ahead’s early winners, Dream Kisses is the product of a broodmare by a Danzig-line stallion.

Her dam Kiss Me Katy is a stakes winning daughter of Mull Of Kintyre, an immediate son of the celebrated speed influence.

Other notable winners by Dream Ahead bred on similar lines include French G2 winner Donjuan Triumphant and stakes-placed winners Dream Of Dreams, Dreams Aplenty and Boos.

Boos, a filly from Dream Ahead second Northern hemisphere crop trained in France, Boos went within a head of winning the G2 Criterium de Maisons-Laffitte on Saturday. Dream Ahead’s first crop son Donjuan Triumphant last won the Maison-Laffite feature last year.

Dream Kisses has earned $51,000 prize money in her two starts, an amount that should get her into the Magic Millions in January.