The Anthony Freedman-trained/Darley-raced two-year-old filly Avanti made an impressive winning debut. She was a little slow to move but recovered from her inside barrier (1) to settle in third spot on the rails. She switched out three deep rounding the home turn, raced a little greenly in the early part of the home straight but responded to Daniel Moor’s urgings and scored a soft win at the post by just over a length. An attractive chestnut filly, she looks suited to further and seems to have quite a future. Spiderbite led the field until the 200m mark but found the winner too classy in the closing stages and held on to take second, beaten length and a quarter. *ANZ