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Smart mare See You In Heaven will have one more start in Adelaide before eyeing off the $1m Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day.
Last year's Sandown Guineas winner couldn't have been more impressive in her return to racing when she sat wide and scored a dominant 1.2 length win in Saturday's Group 3 Behemoth Stakes at Morphettville, her fifth win from just 12 starts taking prizemoney beyond $630,000 in the process.
"Considering she's still under done, it's exciting to see where she goes next,'' co-trainer Chantelle Jolly said.
"She had a decent spell, she's had some foot issues in the past and she's come back bigger and stronger.
"She'll head to the Leon Macdonald Stakes in two weeks and then we'll look to take her to Melbourne, the end game is the Empire Rose, a mile for mares,'' she said.
See You In Heaven was ridden confidently by leading jockey Jake Toeroek who said the four-year-old had come back to racing better than ever.
"The way the track was playing, no speed in the race, I was happy to ride her a bit arrogantly, like the best horse in the race,'' Toeroek said.
"She loomed up like she was going to blow them away but knocked up a bit late.
"She had a massive blow, there is heaps of improvement there, I think this is the best we've had her out of all her preps, she's flying,'' he said.
Toeroek, the South Australia Metropolitan Jockey Premiership winner from last season, capped another big day with a riding double winning aboard Flyway for the Scott Westover stable early in the day.
Toeroek shared riding honours with Todd Pannell who scored aboard Suzido for Victorian trainer Charlotte Littlefield after winning aboard Sweetened earlier in the day who followed up her second placing in the Listed Lightning Stakes with an impressive win.
Sweetened was the second leg of a training double for Will Clarken and Niki O'Shea with Silent Don continuing his solid form winning with Ben Price in the saddle.
Apprentice Alana Livesey also recording a milestone with her 100th career win aboard the Ryan Balfour-trained Tres Belle who broke the hearts of punters across Australia when the filly got the better of the heavily backed Braveman'sgame.
And at Bordertown on Sunday talented apprentice Rochelle Milnes shared riding honours with Victorian hoop Jarrod Lorensini.
Milnes claiming the last two races on the card getting The Difference home for Gawler trainer Darren McLeod before Spitfire Sun made it consecutive wins for the Alexander Justice stable.
