Quality New Zealand filly Probabeel had race fitness on her side when beating Funstar first up in the Group I ATC Surround Stakes last month, but the tables were turned at Rosehill on Saturday when Funstar led all the way to win the Group II ATC Phar Lap Stakes (1500m) with Probabeel a brave second.
At her career debut in a 10-furlong maiden at Sandown back on April 24 1992, the 25/1 outsider User Friendly, thrashed the favoured pair of Juddmonte Farm’s royally-bred Shirly Valentine and Godolphin’s sensationally-related Nijinsky filly Jood but few would have foreseen the impact those three would have on the breed.
