Classy three-year-old Toorak Toff has taken Rick Hore-Lacy's breath away with a barnstorming win in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.Hore-Lacy jokingly asked for an oxygen mask as he tried to take in Saturday's unexpected head win over Soul and Blue Diamond Stakes winner Star Witness."My heart is going boom, boom, boom," Hore-Lacy said."I didn't think he could win."He has come from last and gone around them and he made it look easy."Hore-Lacy feared that the 1100 metres would be too short for

Classy three-year-old Toorak Toff has taken Rick Hore-Lacy's breath away with a barnstorming win in the Listed Vain Stakes at Caulfield.

Hore-Lacy jokingly asked for an oxygen mask as he tried to take in Saturday's unexpected head win over Soul and Blue Diamond Stakes winner Star Witness.

"My heart is going boom, boom, boom," Hore-Lacy said.

"I didn't think he could win.

"He has come from last and gone around them and he made it look easy."

Hore-Lacy feared that the 1100 metres would be too short for Toorak Toff ($9) but jockey Damien Oliver urged him home down the centre of the track to score his fourth win in seven starts.

He will now head to Sydney for the $1 million Group One Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill in two weeks and return to Melbourne and take on the older horses at weight-for-age in a yet to be decided assignment leading up to the Caulfield Guineas (1600m) in October.

Hore-Lacy had declared Toorak Toff as potentially a better horse than his Blue Diamond and Caulfield Guineas winner Redoute's Choice but isn't getting carried away just yet.

"It is still a bit early to compare him with a horse like Redoute's Choice but if he (Toorak Toff) hadn't been shin-sore he could easily have won the Blue Diamond," Hore Lacy said.

He said Toorak Toff was also desperately unlucky at his two starts in Sydney where he drew wide and finished fourth in the Group One Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m) and seventh in the Group One Champagne Stakes.(1600m)

"Bad gates cost him and he could have won both those races," Hore-Lacy lamented.

Hore-Lacy's only regret was that the Vain Stakes wasn't worth more than $100,000.

"There are not many better three-year-olds around than the ones that turned up today and what gets in my craw a bit is that it is $100,000 and you go around for $70,000 in ordinary Saturday race," Hore-Lacy said.

"To get $30,000 more for winning race like this, I think it is bloody ridiculous."

Toorak Toff, who was a $135,000 yearling, won the Adelaide Magic Millions in March and Oliver said he identified him as a potentially top three-year-old after winning the Group Three Jansz (1200m) on him at his next start at Morphettville.

"He is a great size and obviously travels well and has a good turn of foot," Oliver said.

"He has a great constitution and I think there is improvement in him."

Jockey Nick Hall said Star Witness, who couldn't go with Toorak Toff on Saturday, didn't handle the slow track.

"He is better than that and never travelled on a slow tempo," Hall said.

Trainer Peter Moody was of a similar opinion about Master Harry who finished eighth.

"He was off the bridle at the 500 metres," Moody said.