Alabama Express posted a new stakes-winner at Riccarton on Saturday with Discretion Rules winning the Listed Berkely Stud Champagne Stakes (1200m) and he now registers as a first stakes-winner for his sire, whose previous first stakes-winner Karavas was disqualified from her win in the Group III VRC Ottawa Stakes last spring due to a positive swab.
It was a good result for the Victorians in a thrilling finish to the $250,000 Group III Richmond Club Hawkesbury Gold Cup, with the well-supported Just Folk defeating the top-weight Detonator Jack.