Overview

• Craig Williams controlled the race from the start as the eight-year-old scored by about 1½ lengths over Aeliana, with Via Sistina third.
• The result ended Via Sistina’s unbeaten run this year after four consecutive Group 1 victories since February.
• Mr Brightside became the first three-time winner of the Makybe Diva Stakes and advanced his career tally to ten Group 1 wins.
• Ben, Will and J D Hayes indicated he is likely to stay at a mile, with the Group 2 Feehan Stakes or Randwick’s King Charles III Stakes under consideration while a Cox Plate nomination remains live.
• The victory offered a lift for a sport concerned for apprentice Tom Prebble, who is in hospital recovering from spinal surgery after a midweek fall.