Expectations around Mongolian Falcon were sky high at Ruakaka and the classy colt didn't let anybody down.
He made his three-year-old debut in yesterday's Harcourts Just Rentals and victory was delivered in the style his trainers Donna Logan and Chris Gibbs craved with ambitious spring plans in place.
"We've got a huge opinion of him," co-trainer Chris Gibbs said. "He'll definitely be nominated for the VRC Derby and if we take that path then he won't be hanging around in New Zealand for too long."
A $450,000 Karaka yearling purchase for the Inner Mongolia Horse Rider Industry, Mongolian Falcon was a trial winner before he finished third on debut last season and second-up he beat the subsequent group two Matamata Breeders' Stakes winner Gold Rush.
The son of Fastnet Rock and the group performed Galileo mare Amazing Beauty then ran a close second in the Listed Reid & Harrison Slipper before he was put aside after he suffered an interrupted run when unplaced in the group one Diamond Stakes.