Mosheen asserts more dominance over males at Randwick

By Brians Newsflash

The spring might have been all about Fastnet Rock filly Atlantic Jewel, but come the autumn and it's been all about another Fastnet Rock filly in Mosheen, who again asserted her dominance over the colts with an amazing victory in the Group I ATC Randwick Guineas on Saturday, reports Tara Madgwick in breednet.com.au.Her report adds: The Robert Smerdon trained filly finished second in last year's Golden Slipper over 1200 metres and then coasted to a nine length win in the Group I VRC Oaks in the s

Her report adds: The Robert Smerdon trained filly finished second in last year's Golden Slipper over 1200 metres and then coasted to a nine length win in the Group I VRC Oaks in the spring over 2500 metres, but it's somewhere in the middle of that distance range that we really see the best of her.

Mosheen bested the colts last start to win the Group I VRC Australian Guineas over 1600 metres at Flemington and then repeated the effort on a rain soaked Randwick to take this 1600 metre feature by a neck over progressive geldings Said Com and Laser Hawk.

Drawn awkwardly in gate 12, Danny Nikolic allowed Mosheen to settle back in the field and as we've seen before, her scintillating turn of foot is what allows her to somehow snatch a victory out of what often appears at the top of the straight a certain defeat.

"Looking at it early I thought she was gone after all the buffeting... I'd all but conceded at the 200, I thought she'd just run out of time, but she's such a good filly," said Robert Smerdon.

"She ran down a couple of furlongs the other morning. I asked Danny to run home in about 26 and she did it 22.8 with him swinging off her and that's what separates these really good horses from the others.

"She has a great constitution and can really hold her condition, so we're not at the end of her yet.

Purchased for $250,000 from the Bylong Park Thoroughbreds draft at the 2010 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, Mosheen (pictured as a yearling) has the impressive record of six wins and five placings from 13 starts with $2.3 million in prizemoney.

From six starts at Group I level, Mosheen has was won three of them and finished second twice, her only failure when finishing sixth to Hurtle Myrtle against the older mares in the Group I VRC Myer Classic .

She is entered for everything in coming weeks - Rosehill Guineas, Vinery Stud Stakes, AJC Oaks, Derby and Doncaster, so connections have some enviable decisions to make.