Untapped gelding steps up at Bendigo

Cylinder will have to raise the bar on his Newmarket Handicap win if he is to win the William reid Stakes at The Valley.

Jockey Beau Mertens has escaped serious injury in a fall at Stony Creek.

Vagrant has recorded a winning hat-trick in taking out the Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes at Caulfield.

Promising three-year-old Otago remained undefeated with a narrow yet decisive win at Flemington.