Kerrin McEvoy gives super filly Guelph a well-deserved pat after her comfortable Thousand Guineas win. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Wayne Ludbey / HeraldSun
SYDNEY'S super filly Guelph continued Darley's absolute domination of this season's three-year-old classics when she outclassed her rivals in the Group 1 $500,000 Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield yesterday.
Guelph's led throughout and was simply in a different league to her rivals, giving trainer Peter Snowden his fourth Group 1 win in 11 days.
Guelph started the stable's big-race winning momentum with her Flight Stakes win on Epsom Day, then last Saturday Long John won the Caulfield Guineas and stablemate Complicate claimed the Spring Champion Stakes.
Snowden's tremendous run of success makes the stable's slow start to the season just a distant memory now.
"We were going through a very quiet time a few weeks back but we kept saying to ourselves that we knew we had the 'goods' once they got to their right races," Snowden said.
"It was a matter of just hoping they come up as well as we expected and they have - it is great when the plans we set come off like they have in the last couple of weeks."
As Snowden reflected on Guelph's latest demonstration of her sheer class and quality with her Thousand Guineas romp, the inevitable question was posed: "Would she line up alongside Long John in the Cox Plate?"
The Darley Crown Lodge supremo believes Guelph has "done her job" for the spring and he favours sending her for a spell but quickly added the final decision is up to owner Sheikh Mohammed.
"It is what the 'boss' wants and what the team wants," Snowden said. "I think we will know about the Cox Plate in the next 48 hours.
"If she was to have another race this spring, then personally I believe the Myer Classic on Derby Day is the perfect race for her."
Guelph ($1.45 favourite) jumped straight to the front and was never seriously challenged to beat May's Dream ($7.50) comfortably by nearly two lengths with Gregers ($10) four-and-a-quarter lengths away third.
Guelph makes it look easy as she records an all-the-way win in the Thousand Guineas. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: HeraldSun
She became the first filly to win the Flight Stakes-Thousand Guineas double since Dashing Eagle in 1996 and enabled Snowden to be the first trainer to complete the Caulfield Guineas-Thousand Guineas double since Bart Cummings won the two races with Alfa and Dashing Eagle.
Stable rider Kerrin McEvoy said he took the bad luck out of the equation by taking Guelph to the lead early.
"Once she bounced out so well, I wasn't worried going to the front because she comes back so well underneath me," McEvoy said.
"She has so much ability, a great nature, and a very good cruising speed. She is the best filly I've ridden.
"But it wasn't a walk in the park. The wind was an issue, it blew her off stride a couple of times around the bend - it was arduous conditions out there.
"She probably felt the ground today and she knew she had a run. The race took a little out of her."
Guelph recorded the fourth Group 1 win of her career improved her overall record to seven wins from 11 starts for more than $1.6 million prizemoney.
Nick Hall, rider of runner-up May's Dream, summed it up best after the race.
"My filly has run as well as she could but has been beaten by a superstar," Hall said.
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