Winner of the inaugural The Everest, Redzel made it back-toback victories, staging another smart sprinting performance in winning here. He was smartly away from his inside barrier (1), travelled well in front, got a break on turning for home and fought back well to score a good win. Trapeze Artist had a good trip in third place on the rails, briefly looked a threat when he moved up at the 200m and then kept battling on well for a good second. Osborne Bulls settled in last place in the 12-horse field, went extremely wide (looking for better ground) on turning for home and made ground (closer to the outside rail) to take third. Le Romain raced outside the leader and eventual winner (Redzel) to the home turn and battled on in the heavy conditions for fourth, just in advance of the three-year-old Graff who ran on well from eighth place at the home turn for (4.2 lengths) fifth.