We look back on all the key races and ratings from a huge weekend of racing.
Moonee Valley
How good to see Jenni back and reunited with Declan Bates, ripping around The Valley to beat Treasurethe Moment and prove any doubters wrong.
This was as close to a perfect ride I've seen on Pride Of Jenni, Bates going a good tempo without overdoing it and pulling out plenty late.
Now an eight-year-old mare, she's run to a Racing & Sports rating of 126 on Friday which is excellent going, especially first up.
It's the same rating she ran to win the Feehan last year, beating the 125 rated Mr Brightside by 1.5 lengths there and the 124 rated Treasurethe Moment by 1.8 lengths on Friday.
Her peak of 129 in the Queen Elizabeth still stands clear but she's now run a rating of 125 or better on five occasions across multiple seasons.
This even out-rates what Treasurethe Moment did first up in the Memsie Stakes and it'll be fascinating to see her trajectory from here. Two fast races could set up her up very well to 2000m next start.
As for Jenni, she makes racing exciting wherever she goes, and no doubt she'll continue to be 'the dunno' every time she steps out.
A huge new peak performance from Charm Stone to win the Manikato Stakes, running to a RAS rating of 121 in a dominant two-length win.
She'd won the Sangster first up last time in running to a rating of 113 but this is a marked improvement given the horses she's beaten so comfortably.
A rating of 121 is decent going for the declining Manikato which has been hit hard by The Everest.
Looking at the winning rating of the race from 2010 to present, the mean and median winning rating is 121, which Charm Stone has run to.
In that period we've seen Sepoy run to 128 as a three-year-old, Chatauqua go 127 and Hay List & Imperatriz run 126.
Imperatriz holds up the recent winning average but the likes of Jonker (116), Loving Gaby (118) and Brave Smash (119) since 2018 tell the tale.
The others in behind Charm Stone have all run below their mark. Baraqiel has run to 114 (down from 118 in the Moir) while favourite Lady Shenandoah has run to 112 (off a peak of 117).
She had some excuses but that's not to say that she'd have won with a better run in transit. I was a bit softer on her first up run than others suggesting she was the main local hope in The Everest (which is Joliestar), and she's got the task ahead to prove otherwise.
As for the winner, she has to have some sort of Everest slot claim. Improving again off this big new peak is hard to do and she's just as likely to regress, but she'd still be rated higher than a few above her.
Rosehill
An outstanding performance by Beiwacht to win the Golden Rose to lead throughout and win by four lengths in track record time.
He was very good in the Run To The Rose but this is a whole new level and one of the best Golden Rose wins in history.
He's run to a RAS rating of 123 on Saturday which matches what his sire Bivouac did in 2019 which was one of the hottest three-year-old seasons in my time in racing, beating Yes Yes Yes and Exceedance.
Only two horses have run a better rating in the Golden Rose on the RAS scale- Astern and Manawanui, who both ran to 124.
Astern was rated 122 going into the Golden Rose having won the Run To The Rose over Star Turn and Impending by 0.2 and 3.7 lengths respectively, then beating a very deep field including the likes of Omei Sword, Impending, Diving Prophet and Yankee Rose.
Manawanui was rated 118 going in before beating Smart Missile by a head, with 3.5 lengths to Helmet in third and 3.8 lengths to Foxwedge in fourth.
Beiwacht had a lower bar to clear and so we can't get overly carried away with the win, but the time rating (121) backs up the strength of the win. It assumes that Wodeton and Tempted haven't been too far off their best but Skyhook in fourth has only regressed one pound (112>111).
It'll be fascinating to see which way they go with Beiwacht off this run. Clearly the rise to 1400m suited him, which can be tricky for leaders that are speedy enough to run well over shorter but then are run down late, suggesting they don't want further.
That was clearly not the case on Saturday and off this, 1600m certainly wouldn't be an issue in a Caulfield Guineas, especially given the Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley only took 108 to win, which is around 5-6 lengths off what Beiwacht did on Saturday.
This could also be the ideal platform for dropping back to a brutal 1200m in The Everest, which you could well need to tackle Ka Ying Rising.
I think Tempted will be far better suited coming back in trip. She loomed up as the only danger in the straight but just peaked the last 100m. This is still well off what an Everest will take to even run in the first half, but I think she's a 120 filly in the making and that's starting to look like a top three or four.
There could also be very sharp improvers out of this, because a horse like Autumn Boy simply can't run that sort of time over 1400m on a fast track and was at his top the whole way which means he can barely accelerate in the straight, and the others in front weren't stopping.
The expected rating for Autumn Boy given he started $4.40 is over 120 and while he needs to make a big pound-for-pound leap to win a Caulfield Guineas, I wouldn't be dropping off.
As for Beiwacht, I've no idea where they'll go but assume The Everest is the most likely option. He adds a genuinely interesting angle and will go in as the equal second-highest rated danger to Ka Ying Rising, with the upside to say the Hong Kong champ can't be miles off his game.
