Making it now four wins from five starts, Ad Valoremthree-year-old gelding Pied A Terre gave his second-season sire his third Group winner after claiming the G2 Autumn Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield on 11 February.
Jumping from a wide barrier, the Peter Snowden-trained gelding travelled on the speed throughout and went to the line strongly for jockey Mark Zahra to win by one-and-a-half-lengths.
Bred by Darley Australia, Pied A Terre is a out of the winning Grand Lodge mare Masonette, a half-sister to G3 winner Graceful Encounter. Masonette has fillies by Commands, a two-year-old named Izba, Strategic, Exceed And Excel and last season she was covered by European Champion two and three-year-old New Approach.
Ad Valorem has just the one yearling catalogued for the upcoming Inglis Premier sales in Melbourne, lot 648, a colt out of the Octagonal mare Paillasse, the dam of Strategic's Stakes-performer Safe, from the Shady Lane Thouroughbreds draft.
Ad Valorem enjoyed a stellar season with his first-crop of southern hemisphere runners highlight by the G2-winning Free Wheeling and the G3-winning, G1-performer Uate and the G2-placed Detours.
