Arrowfield graduates won the first two races at Flemington on Derby Day with The Roaring Sun landing the Group III VRC Carbine Stud Stakes followed by Palace Pier (GB) filly Regal Ambition, who flew home to win the Group III VRC The Vanity (1400m).
Trained by the Lindsay Park team and ridden by Mick Dee, Regal Ambition was coming off a last start third to Saintly Dancer in the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas and franked the form of that race when powering home.
She carried top weight of 57.5kg and showed her class to win by a length and a half.
Regal by name, regal by nature ?? REGAL AMBITION comes flying home to take out the @tabcomau One Pool Vanity. #DerbyDay https://t.co/73RblvwcO6
— Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) October 31, 2026
“Great result. Mickey (Dee) knows this girl really well. She got a little bit far back but he got her out, gave her plenty of room and she was super strong through the line,” said co-trainer Ben Hayes.
“It's exciting to get a nice result. TRL do a lot for racing, they get a lot of the smaller people in and they've got a massive group of ownership and we also syndicated her down as well so to have a great filly like her win today, win a G3 on Derby Day is special.”
Purchased for $230,000 from the Arrowfield draft at Magic Millions by The Racing League and Lindsay Park Racing, Regal Ambition is the fourth winner from five to the races Snitzel mare Dame Pattie, a daughter of Champion 3YO Filly and multiple G1-winning Encosta de Lago filly Alinghi.
Bred by Arrowfield in partnership, Regal Ambition also comes from the same family as last season’s G1 Stradbroke Handicap winner Spicy Martini and has the overall record of three wins and two seconds from five starts with prizemoney topping $420,000.
Dame Pattie produced a filly by Dundeel last year and was covered by him again last spring and recently produced a colt.
Regal Ambition is one of two Aussie SW’s for Kingman stallion Palace Pier, who shuttled for just one season to Darley Australia.
