HARLEM (Champs Elysees) won a Group 3 in Australia last weekend and has put himself firmly in the picture for the AUS$3 million Group 1 Caulfield in three weeks’ time. Victory there would be just reward for the faith placed in the five-year-old when he was purchased for 520,000gns as last year’s Tattersalls Autumn Horses In Training Sale. He was the top-priced horse at the sale.

Bred and raced initially by Juddmonte Farms, Harlem came up for sale with impeccable credentials, having won a listed race at Vichy over a mile and a half and finishing in the frame in the Group 2 Grand Prix de Chantilly (third), Prix Kergorlay (fourth) and the Group 3 Prix d’Hedouville (runner-up).