AQUEDUCT last weekend staged a pair of Grade 2 races for two-year-olds and the respective winners could not have had more contrasting career starts.

Malathaat extended her unbeaten record to three when she added the Demoiselle Stakes to a prior success in the Listed Tempted Stakes at the same track. She races in the colours of Sheikh Hamdan and her performances to date are befitting a filly who cost $1,050,000 at last year’s Keeneland September Sale.