Vezalay showed the benefit of a short break from racing, when leading all the way to win the Beverage Williams Plate at Caulfield.

That was her first city win and in the manner in which she won further wins look to be on the agenda, she was quite impressive.

At her previous start she was thrown in at the deep end in the William Reid Stakes, yet ran quite a respectable race, as she was coming off a provincial Maiden win into a Group 1 race.

She is going to win a handy race or two coming into the spring, and Saturday’s win was only her sixth start in a race and she will benefit from the win.

The success has continued on for the inform combination of Brad Spicer, as a syndicator, Leon Corstens trainer, and Damian Oliver.

Her work on the track has been satisfactory, there was some concern she may have been a bit on the soft side, however, punters were oblivious to that, they sent her out a solid favourite.

Leon Corstens would have preferred to see her settle a little better, but that was not the case, she began well and there was no point in pulling her about.

On returning to scale in the colours, lime green, black spots, striped sleeves, orange cap, previously carried by the Group 1 winning mare, Commanding Jewel.

Vezalay under Damian Oliver