The $1 million Karaka Mile was billed as a two-horse race, but Prowess can’t count.
The exciting Cambridge filly last night downed the superstars of her crop in Wild Night (second) and Legarto (fourth), with the glamour gallopers split in third by Desert Lightning.
But while she didn’t go into the race with the hype of the favourites, Prowess emerged as a special filly, kept out of trouble by Warren Kennedy who then pushed the button at the right time to put a winning break on Wild Night.
Legarto, who was never really in clear air back and on the inside, unwound late for fourth but by then the race was over.
Prowess’s win was about her crucial weapon, speed — the ability to use it early and then again late, the sort of weapon that should make her a Group 1 winner in the near future.