The Canberra Cup could be a race of firsts for both French import Athabascan and his trainer John O’Shea.

Following an unlucky second with Mo'unga on Saturday, Annabel Neasham has gone one better with Equation in the Canberra Guineas.

Rom Baro has taken out the Canberra Guineas with trainer Matthew Dale keen to aim the three-year-old at the Carbine Club Stakes at Randwick.

Interspersed has staked a claim for some of the richest three-year-old fillies races of the Sydney autumn carnival with her win in the Canberra Guineas.