Manighar continued Victoria's dominance at Rosehill on Golden Slipper Day by taking out the G1 The BMW. Manighar completed his transformation from a grinding handicapper to a weight-for-age superstar with a dominant victory in the $2.2 million G1 The BMW at Rosehill on Saturday.The Peter Moody-trained gelding followed up his success in the G1 Australian Cup and the G1 Ranvet Stakes with victory in Sydney's premier WFA staying contest and has only tasted defeat once since moving to Moody's stable

Manighar continued Victoria's dominance at Rosehill on Golden Slipper Day by taking out the G1 The BMW.

Manighar completed his transformation from a grinding handicapper to a weight-for-age superstar with a dominant victory in the $2.2 million G1 The BMW at Rosehill on Saturday.

The Peter Moody-trained gelding followed up his success in the G1 Australian Cup and the G1 Ranvet Stakes with victory in Sydney's premier WFA staying contest and has only tasted defeat once since moving to Moody's stables.

A thrilled Moody admitted that while the horse had always had the ability, the task had been for him to regain his desire to finish hard and win races.

"He is just a joy to have around the place because he doesn't cause us any problems and he's a lovely horse to train," Moody said

"We've just tinkered a little bit but there's no doubt he has always had the ability and maybe he just needed the will to win to be installed back into him."

"We haven't done anything overly unusual with him and he has just been a part of the stable routine and we've tried to build his confidence at home and he's taken that to the races."

Stable jockey Luke Nolen rode a positive race aboard the son of Linamix, beginning well from barrier six before positioning him outside leader Fiumicino.

Despite over-racing at times during the first half of the race, Manighar ($4) bolted clear at the top of the straight to claim a 1 ¢ length win over 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain ($2.40) with fellow Victorian-trained import Drunken Sailor ($26) closing late to round out the placings.

Despite Manighar's tendency to fight Nolen, the jockey was happy with his now-trademark turn-of-foot at the end of the 2400m event.