CO-TRAINED by Roger James and Robert Wellwood for her owner/breeder Joan Egan, Concert Hall landed a maiden Group 1 in the Cambridge Stud Zabeel Classic over 2,000 metres at Ellerslie on St Stephen’s Day.

The six-year-old Savabeel mare, second in the Group 1 Captain Cook Stakes in early December, produced a sustained burst sweep to the lead in the closing stages and post a half-length win over another Savabeel, the mare Supera, with the Fastnet Rock gelding In A Twinkling third.