The Robert Smerdon-trained filly Crafty settled back in ninth place on the rails, one off the rails, following a moderate early tempo (first 1000m 62.72). She switched wide on rounding the home turn, improved passing the 200m, challenged at the 100m and then finished a bit too well to score by a short head, running the 1600m out well. Triple Gold settled near the rear (on the rails) in the 13-horse field. He went wide on straightening and continued a strong late run in the straight for a very good second, stepping up to 1600m at his second race start. The favourite Zebulon was wide all the way from his difficult barrier (13). He travelled in fifth place (three wide), moved up wide out at the home turn, got to second at the 200m but was overhauled in the latter stages to finish third after a difficult trip.*ANZ