AUSTRALIAN racing has yet another horse celebrated on the world stage after filly Mosheen overcame the widest gate, the wet conditions and a field full of quality colts to easily win the group 1 $755,000 Australian Guineas at Flemington yesterday, reports the Sunday Age. It says: The filly, who won the VRC Oaks last spring by nine lengths in the absence of the world's highest-rated middle-distance three-year-old filly - the unbeaten Atlantic Jewel - yesterday confirmed her place in the top echel

AUSTRALIAN racing has yet another horse celebrated on the world stage after filly Mosheen overcame the widest gate, the wet conditions and a field full of quality colts to easily win the group 1 $755,000 Australian Guineas at Flemington yesterday, reports the Sunday Age.

It says: The filly, who won the VRC Oaks last spring by nine lengths in the absence of the world's highest-rated middle-distance three-year-old filly - the unbeaten Atlantic Jewel - yesterday confirmed her place in the top echelon, according to World Thoroughbred Rankings representative Greg Carpenter.

He said Mosheen had an international rating of 116 (compared with Atlantic Jewel's 121) after her Oaks blitz and her Guineas performance was at least up to that level. ''She may even get marginally higher with a victory like that, but her performance really underlines the quality of Atlantic Jewel, who beat her comfortably in the Thousand Guineas,'' Carpenter said.

Starting at $5 after $6 was bet, Mosheen gained a dream run through the field and then dashed clear to win by three lengths from Strike The Stars ($17), with a further 2╝ lengths to Mister Milton ($91) in third place.

Delighted trainer Robert Smerdon said he went to the races yesterday in the knowledge that everything would have to go right for Mosheen to win in the worsening conditions. ''I don't know what I was worried about,'' he said after the race. ''It was simply a remarkable ride from Danny [Nikolic] to get her across from that gate to the middle of the field with cover. I still don't know how he did it. I'm going to have to watch the replay.''