A timely stakes winner from the Scone Yearling sale, 6yo gelding Sweet Serendipity made his first start in a black-type race tell when leading all the way under Kathy O'Hara in Saturday's Listed Ascot Handicap (1200m) at Doomben.
The son of Excites defeated Irish Constabulary (Flying Spur) by a length with Mr Favulous (Falvelon) the same distance back in third.
A bargain basement $9,000 purchase by trainer Jason Coyle at the 2012 Scone Yearling sale, Sweet Serendipity advances his overall record to 9 wins, 2 seconds and 1 third from 37 starts with earnings of $296,940.
"Sweet Serendipity is in career-best form and Kathy is in great form as well," Coyle told AAP.
"She really knows how to rate a horse in front.
"Whether we press on into the winter remains to seen. I am reluctant to send him now he is racing so well but I will just see how he pulls up."
Bred and consigned to sale by Ferndale Farm, Sweet Serendipity is a half-sister to the stakes-placed Sweet Chloe (Distinctly North) out of the winning Rory's Jester mare Sweet Rory.
Sweet Serendipity is the final foal of Sweet Rory who was pensioned in 2011.
Most interest in the pedigree comes through Sweet Rory's dam Sweet Phoenix (Roy Bridge) who was a half-sister to the grand two-year-old filly Reisling (Rego) the winner of the 1965 Golden Slipper.
Sweet Serendipity becomes the sixth stakes winner for Group I AJC Sires' Produce Stakes winner Excites (Danewin) (pictured) who now stands at Springfields Stud in Queensland at a fee of $4,400 after beginning his career at Vinery Stud.
