Pane In The Glass capped a great day for Patinack Farm trainer John Thompson when she scored an overdue black-type win in the Group Three Silver Shadow Stakes at Warwick Farm.
The Thompson-trained Kneeling had earlier captured the Listed Adapt Australia Crockett Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley, running down Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Hallowell Belle.
Pane In The Glass's win in the Silver Shadow Stakes capped of a great day for Patinack Farm - Photo by Steve Hart
“They’re two really nice fillies,” Thompson said of his stakeswinning pair.
Pane In The Glass was Group One-placed in the Sires’ Produce and Champagne Stakes during the autumn but her victory in the Silver Shadow (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday was her first at stakes level.
“When she went for a spell you would nearly have said she was the best two-year-old filly of the season yet she wasn’t a stakeswinner,” Thompson said.
“I was worried coming here today. She didn’t race well here last time and I thought if she was going to be beaten she would be beaten today.
“It’s looking good for her for the Princess Series.”
The Silver Shadow is the first race in the four-leg Princess Series which culminates in the Group One Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on October 1.
The victory by Pane In The Glass ($3.20 fav) gave visiting Victorian jockey Craig Williams a double after he earlier posted his first win at Warwick Farm aboard Theophorus.
Williams gave Pane In The Glass time to find her feet then stoked her up around the turn and she chimed in down the outside and stuck to her guns to score a narrow but decisive head win over Florentina ($7).
Streama ($5.50) was another long head back in third.
Florentina’s jockey Corey Brown said she was at sea in the wet conditions and was game in defeat.
“She didn’t really handle the conditions, she couldn’t get going and the last furlong (200m) she was scrambling the whole way,” Brown said.
Golden Slipper placegetter Elite Falls never threatened and finished fifth with jockey James McDonald describing her run as “disappointing”.
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