Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Farnan to win the Golden Slipper in 2020 and they are having plenty of fun with his first crop of two year-olds and produced a debut winner for the Kia Ora Stud based sire at Randwick on Wednesday with a tenacious victory for Farnicle.

Hong Kong champion jockey Zac Purton has been booked to ride Kiwi raider El Vencedor in the Gr.1 FWD QE II Cup (2000m) at Sha Tin next month.