The final Group race of the Flemington Spring Carnival produced an emphatic winner of the G3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes when Cape Cross' son Capecover passed the post one and three-quarter lengths in front of the in-form pair Light Vision and Baughurst, who had previously filled the quinella in the Listed Bart Cummings Stakes over course and distance last month.
This was Capecover's second good run of the Carnival having finished third to Moatize in the G3 Hotham Handicap seven days previously.
The six-year-old was bred in New Zealand by Mr and Mrs Hale and is a son of the Zabeel mare Set Up, who is a daughter of Set Sail, the foal which Slip Anchor's dam Sayonara was carrying when imported from Germany to Britain by the late Leslie Harrison on behalf of Lord Howard de Walden's Plantation Stud.
The nine-time winner was victorious in the G3 Metroplitan Handicap at Riccarton in his native country last year. Since travelling to Australia, he has also been successful in the Listed Tokyo City Cup at Morphettville.
