When Darley released their service fees earlier this week, Microphone was absent from the 2025 roster and a quick check on Studbook shows he has been exported to the USA, but the son of Exceed and Excel was in the winner’s list on ANZAC Day producing his first stakes-winner.

Unbeaten this year with four successive wins, this four year-old gelding is a horse going places with a facile victory at Flemington on ANZAC Day stamping him as a possible spring contender.