Pretty Pins confirmed she is a filly with a real future after another impressive win at Doomben on Saturday. Pretty Pins was always comfortable in the heavy conditions, showing real class to come clear over the concluding stages to win the  QTIS Ascend Sales 3yo Handicap over 1600 metres.

Smothered away along the inside after crossing from a wide draw, Tim Bell sat coolly until into the straight where he delivered Pretty Pins into the clear and the chestnut then accelerated away.

As her name suggests, Pretty Pins is a daughter of successful sire Pins and has been in great form since winning her maiden at Doomben in mid-September. Since then Pretty Pins has won twice and placed three times from five starts and hopefully there is another win to come.

“There’s another race for her over 2000 metres and then she’ll go out for a spell,” Patinack Farm’s Queensland foreman, Brett Killion, said. “There’s no doubt she’ll come back better six months down the track and it would be nice to think she could be a Queensland Oaks type.”

“The way she relaxes in her races you’d think she’ll get a lot further. She’s a real gem.”

Bell is also of the opinion that Pretty Pins can go further. “She’s a quality filly and she deserved to win. I think she can win over 2000 metres just as impressively as this and there’s definitely a nice race in her in the future.

Elsewhere around Australia on Saturday, Husson’s winning daughter Glimmer was just edged out at Flemington, beaten a short half-head in the $70,000 Spotless 2yo Plate over 1000m at Flemington.

This was just the second start for Glimmer who showed speed to lead and was only nosed out in the last stride. The $12,600 second prize advances Husson’s lead in the First-Season Sires Premiership. After Saturday’s racing Husson leads the way with the most number of winners (4) and his $137,900 earnings total is the only six-figure tally of a first-season sire in Australia this season.