Top Echelon sprinter Our Boy Malachi continued his remarkable rise from country sprinter to potential Group One winner with a classy first-up win in the G3 Hall Mark Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Quick recap of last weekend first – we went two for three but missed the clean sweep when our bet of the day, Carmine King, put in a pitiful showing to be beaten 6.5L by Keep It Moist.

For the second straight week Queensland’s feature race was won by an outsider storming home on the rails.

New Zealand mare Quintessential has relished the heavy ground on offer at Eagle Farm on Saturday in taking out the Group 3 Chairman’s Handicap.

Group one winning trainer Tony Gollan is hoping his galloper Topping can put in a good display in the Premiers Cup Prelude (1800m) at Rosehill on Saturday, with the hope of backing the gelding up in two weeks time.