Bishops Castle showed a glimpse of his Darwin form when he returned to the winner’s circle at Flemington on Saturday.

That was his fourth start here since arriving from Darwin; his three previous runs have been at Moonee Valley, he has been slowly working up to a win.

The gelding, trained at Flemington by Stephen Brown, is yet to be tried beyond 1300metres, although he has been placed over a middle distance, and may even get further, as he is out of a Zabeel mare which has been a great source of staying power.

Brown is having a great run since establishing himself at Flemington, where he has leased 30 boxes from David Hayes.

It is the perfect training arrangement that is getting results, wife, Elisha, trains in Darwin, when the horses at the top end run into a bit of form she sends them onto Stephen at Flemington, it’s ideal, it works both ways.

There was money for Bishops Castle and rightly so, he shortened up slightly but remained backable.

After favourites won the two previous races punters loaded up on Reldas, he was always in the red; he never really got into the race at any stage, finishing fifth.

General Offer turned in a nice run; he was specked at good odds with each way giving a reasonable result.

Bishops Castle winning at Flemington