“IT’S through a power greater than myself that I’ve gotten here today,” said trainer David Vandyke who started working at Randwick as a teenager, survived heroin addiction and a suicide attempt to win his first Group 1 on Saturday.

A $10,000 Classic Yearling Sale buy, the all-American filly Yankee Rose, reaffirmed her Golden Slipper second placing to comfortably win the $1million ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes over 1,400 metres.