Foundry showed a touch of class in winning the tab.com.au Trophy at Flemington with the promise of better things yet to come.

Just as Our Hand Of Faith was getting the better of Decircles in tight a finish, Foundry emerged basically unseen and defeated them both.

There are no immediate plans for the import, formerly trained by Aiden O’Brien at Ballydoyle, now owned by Nick Williams, and his father Lloyd.

Foundry has had a short but interesting career to date, he is a five year old to southern hemisphere time, yet has only had three starts before coming here.

There is no question he has got tons of talent, we only caught an intimate glimpse of that on Saturday, you can be sure there is more to come.

Foundry wins at Flemington

Foundry won a Maiden race at Leopardstown over 1400 metres 15 months ago, and did not appear again until the following August in the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York over 2400 metres, his only other run was the 2900 metres of the Group 1 St Leger at Doncaster.

His dam, Sharp Lisa, whilst she won just four races was a pretty handy sort of mare, she won in Group 1 company at Santa Anita, and was placed twice at Group 1 and once at Group 2, yet the stake earnings were not that flash, $872,504.

Foundry under Craig Williams