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A look at how Broadsiding stacks up with past Golden Rose winners.

Broadsiding became the first horse to win the Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) first up from a spell and did it in very exciting fashion.

The market support was scarily telling, starting him evens on the tote and close to it on other mediums.

The pace wasn't overly quick here and the son of Too Darn Hot has ripped home, running to 121 with Timeform, a clear new peak for him.

There was every indication the 116 ratings he ran as a two-year-old were going to be improved upon sooner rather than later, but to do so by five pounds so quickly is outstanding.

A rating of 121 in a Golden Rose isn't anything out of the ordinary by any means. In the past ten years, it's a trio of Godolphin gallopers who sit 1-2-3 on the ratings list.

Exosphere ran 127 to win in 2015 and Astern 126 the year after, while Bivouac went 123 in 2019.

Broadsiding sits below them and Trapeze Artist (122) who won by 4.3 lengths, but ahead of the likes of The Autumn Sun (120), In The Congo (120), Jacquinot (120), Ole Kirk (118) and Militarize (116).

I'd still prefer to see Storm Boy go to the Caulfield Guineas. People will say he's a sprinter, but he's run to the same rating he did first-up over 1100m here over 1400m, coming in at 118 both times.

That said, anything will have the task ahead to beat Broadsiding in the Guineas, which will then add another fascinating element in a Cox Plate.

Broadsiding has gone every bit as well as a horse like Anamoe did in the Golden Rose who then ran 123 in the Guineas and should've won a (fairly) thin Cox Plate. Broadsiding will have to be even better to win this year's Cox Plate, and there's every chance he could be.