Matt Cameron's 1000th winner, but that wasn't all there was to celebrate at Matamata on Saturday.
It was clear the back-up to New Zealand's march through the Australian group ones has admirable cover.
With Turn Me Loose on the rampage to follow Mongolian Khan's destruction last season and Xtravagant about to do battle with Australia's top 3-year-olds, heads turn to where the next wave may come from.
We saw them on Saturday in the form of Heroic Valour and Mongolian Falcon, first and second in the $50,000 Reid & Harrison Slipper.
These two Fastnet Rock colts are something special. The remarkable feature is neither has any idea yet what they're out there for.