First out first home, that is how Meliora won the Aquanas Handicap at Moonee Valley, she was never headed or troubled at any stage of the race.

She is a genuine racehorse and can be improved on that win as she had a let up since running fifth, in a field of nine, to Floatmyboat at Caulfield, in early October.

Tom Brideoake was back in the driver’s seat again for Peter Moody, as he has been so many times, he was pleased to see the return to form of Meliora.

“I think she can go on from here, she is lightly raced having had just seven starts, and there are some nice races for fillies at this time of the year, if we can pick up a bit of Black Type her value will soar”

Meliora is by the Danzig sire, Ad Valorem, regarded as the best two year old in Ireland after winning the Blenheim Stakes at The Curragh, he went to Newmarket to win the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes over 1200 metres, a race that has been the measuring stick for the better two year olds in the U K.

The distaff side of his pedigree is quite sound, although a shade foreign, as in the whole it is made up on American strains.

Meliora - A promising filly