Embellish’s top three-year-old Bold Soul has added to his impressive list of black type achievements in a brief career with victory in the G3 Chairman’s Stakes over 2000 metres at Morphettville.

He is building a formidable record for Victorian trainer Patrick Payne with five wins from his eight starts, including Listed successes last preparation in the Launceston Guineas over 2100 metres and at 2200 metres in the Tasmanian Derby.Bold Soul was freshened following his Classic victory in the summer and returned to finish third in the Listed Port Adelaide Guineas over 1800 metres and successfully stepped back up to a middle distance.

He settled back in the running and was pushed along before the turn and responded powerfully in the run home to put his age group rivals to the sword.“When he hit the flat spot, I didn’t rush him through it which gave him a chance to pick himself up,” rider Jake Noonan said.“From the 400-500 metres I felt like the winner a long way out and, while it took until the 100 to flatten, out he got there.

“I wasn’t worried about where I was or who I was following as I just wanted to get the first half right so he could finish off the last half.“I said to Paddy he looked good in the yard, and he is in good order physically still as he didn’t have a hard time in Tassie where they are trained on the beach there and can come here in good order.”

The last foal of the now retired Singspiel mare Twin Soul, Bold Soul was bred by Lou Te Keeti and sold during the Book 2 session at Karaka to Wanganui horseman Hamish Auret for $20,000 and subsequently made his way to Payne’s Victorian operation.

The race day covers came off another promising member of Embellish’s first crop at Otaki where Flashlight made the perfect start to his career.

The three-year-old, who had finished second in a lead-up trial, belied his long odds with a determined home stretch finish to put away his rivals on debut over 1600 metres.

Raced by breeder Guy Lowry who trains the gelding with Leah Zydenbos, Flashlight lobbed in along in fourth spot before he was angled wide on the turn and let down strongly for rider Lily Sutherland.

Lowry has formed a good opinion of his charge and expects him to be even more of a force to be reckoned with as he steps up in distance.

A half-brother to his multiple-winning stablemate Candle with their dam the No Excuse Needed mare Flare.

She is out of a three-quarter sister to the dual Group 1 winner and former two-time Hong Kong Horse of the Year Ambitious Dragon and Pinmedown, who was successful in an edition of the G2 Eight Carat Classic.

Almanzor has again emphasised his standing as a pre-eminent source of top-quality distance performers with a pair of his daughters dominating the finish of the Listed VRC St Leger at Flemington.Ahuriri was an emphatic winner of the 2800 metre classic with Alma Rise just as easily claiming the runner-up berth at just her third appearance.Trained by Chris Waller, Ahuriri was coming off a midfield finish in the G3 Adrian Knox Stakes on a heavy track and she showed her true colours on a drier surface with a clear-cut victory.“She won it pretty easily, she travelled well and relaxed and saved her energy,” stable representative Dermot O’Brien said.Ahuriri kept the leaders within her sights and when rider Damian Lane asked her for a serious effort 350 metres from home, she lengthened stride to coast home by two and a-quarter lengths.“She was in her comfort zone and then quickened up and it was never in doubt,” O’Brien said.Bred by the Bax family, Ahuriri is out of a half-sister to the multiple Group 1 winner Lucia Valentina and was an $80,000 purchase at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale.The Peter Moody and Catherine Coleman-prepared Alma Rise was a meritorious second for a filly with limited experience and is bred and raced by Ed Calvert.She is a daughter of the Bertolini mare Fashion Black, whose half-brother Xtravagant was a dual top-flight winner.