“She’s very exciting. God, all those horses, I suppose the natural precocity of her at such a young age is probably the most obvious and exciting thing and she has such a big frame and can obviously use it.
“She was very impressive. She’s always been very obvious. It’s great that she did that first-up and great to have her back with a nice run like that. It looked like she did it pretty easy heading into what is one of her targets, the Blue Diamond.”
Maher said she won’t have another start before the Blue Diamond as bookmakers took a knife to her odds for the autumn feature, requoting her at $2.10. Dosh, a winner at Caulfield on Australia day, is second favourite at $11.
Enthaar’s form was franked earlier in Sydney by Mallory, who won the Widden Stakes at Rosehill. Mallory finished second to Enthaar in the spring when the Maher-Eustace runner claimed a clinical debut win.
Jockey Mark Zahra said Enthaar couldn’t have been more impressive on Saturday.
“She’s built like a five-year-old,” he said.
“She’s fully furnished and ready to go. Sepoy, he had a really good turn-of-foot and I think this filly has more speed.”
Meanwhile, three-year-old sprinter Portland Sky claimed the other group 3 on the Caulfield card, winning the 1200-metre Manfred Stakes.
Trainer Matt Laurie said he would consider a trip to Adelaide for the son of Deep Field, who jockey Luke Currie said was going to win a long way out.
“He’s a nice horse,” Currie said.
“Obviously from the inside draw he jumped well and he cruised along and I had to ask him to pick up so he was very relaxed and very comfortable.
“[He] only went steady through the first part of it and then he kept quickening the tempo from the 600 himself and he was always going to be hard to run down. He’s a really nice horse.”
Quality three-year-olds Aysar and Tagaloa filled the placings.
