Promising stayer Super Girl put the finishing touches on a super few days for Bendigo trainer Josh Julius on Wednesday.
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Super Girl showed her strong run in the Bendigo Cup a fortnight ago was no fluke by outclassing her rivals in the Sandhurst Cleaning Supplies Benchmark 64 Handicap (2400m) at the Bendigo Jockey Club.
Super Girl's win came two days after her stablemate and half-sister La Bell Epoque broke her maiden status at Benalla.
"It's been good, a few more weeks like that would be good," Julius told racing.com
After a credible eight-place in the Bendigo Cup a fortnight ago, Julius initial plan was to spell Super Girl.
The temptation of a drop in class and another 2400m event on home soil proved too much and he decided to give the mare one more run.
It proved a good decision. Ridden again by Damien Thornton, Super Girl relished the good tempo in front before making a run around the home turn.
Despite laying-in badly down the home straight she still finished two lengths in front of her rivals.
Super Girl's victory was much to punters delight after the mare was heavily backed into a $2.10 favourite.
"When the penny drops, and she puts it all together, you can see those sort of races she can put away pretty easy,'' Julius said.
This time around Julius will send Super Girl for a spell. His long-range plan is another crack at the Bendigo Cup next spring.
"Seeing her run in the Bendigo Cup the way she did you'd like to think she'd be bigger, better and stronger,'' he said.
"We've mapped a little bit of a light autumn for her, so we can target the spring. It's very exciting."
Thornton said Super Girl had made it hard for herself by not running straight in the final 500m.
"The first three quarters was perfect, they went quick and she relaxed a lot better than what she did in the Cup, which gave me confidence she'd finish off better again,'' Thornton said.
"As soon as I asked her for something from the 600m she started to lay-in and I could feel it, but by the end there was nothing I could do about it.
"She had a mind of her own, but she got the job done. When they have good ability you put up with it and try to fix it, but she probably needs to cut that out."
Thornton said Super Girl had the potential to be competitive in stronger staying races next year.
"So long as she keeps improving like she has you're going to raise the bar,'' he said.
"She's by So You Think she is going to stay and she's proved that.
"Josh has done a good job and there's no reason why she can't go on."
Meanwhile, Warrnambool galloper Mumbles spoiled the party when he defeated Black Caviar's son Prince of Caviar in the Budget Car and Truck Rental Benchmark 70 Handicap (1100m).
Prince of Caviar, trained by the Hawkes stable, was all the rage with punters in his first run back from a spell, but Mumbles was too slick over the concluding stages and won by the best part of two lengths.
After testing Mumbles in city class three-year-old races last campaign, trainer Daniel Bowman is keen to get the promising sprinter back to Melbourne next start.