Stojakovic provides sunshine amid big wet Joy ... Lauren Stojakovic and Miracles Of Life. The Warwick Farm murk and gloom shrouded autumn prospects on Saturday but performances, particularly Miracles Of Life, matched the brilliant sunshine at Caulfield. With horse and partner in perfect unison, Lauren Stojakovic produced a vision splendid comparable with the Blue Diamond best on her flash and colourful filly. The main danger, Guelph, slipped at the start and went down on her nose, but nothing could take the shine off the South Australian combination. Earlier, All Too Hard accounted for mostly staying opposition over 1400 metres in the Futurity but did so with all the family style and a new-found smooth dispatch from the barriers. Meanwhile, the action at the Farm that promised to be hot (in a quality sense) was overcome by the wet. Brilliant three-year-old Pierro didn't have an exhibition gallop and the accomplished top-liner Shoot Out was scratched. The market ($2.60 to $5) indicated that Glencadam Gold would handle the surface as he did - like a camel on an ice rink. Certainly the opening quote was ridiculous but stablemate Laser Hawk ($6 to $4.40 favourite) went little better. However, the Caulfield majors hardly had a strong local component. Yes, All Too Hard is probably more Melbourne than Sydney but the mastermind of the Hawkes operation, father John, is based here. The Oakleigh Plate went to the Gerald Ryan-trained Mrs Onassis from two Queenslanders, Facile Tigre and Spirit Of Boom, and the Peter Young Stakes to Chris Waller's Foreteller, ahead of West Australian Mr Moet. Alas, Miracles Of Life and Stojakovic are unlikely to make the Golden Slipper. Usually Slipper gold is more difficult to find than Melbourne diamonds but wouldn't they give the world's richest race for two-year-olds more sparkle. Bjorn again Peter Snowden, leading the national trainers' premiership, and Chris Waller maintain excellent strike rates. Not that strikes rates are my measure of success. A trainer might have 10 starts for two winners. Whoopee! Once it was about winning, striking the bookmakers like a viper when the money was on. While Waller on Saturday topped the ton in Sydney, arguably where the competition is toughest, Snowden, on 136 winners, made the pace in the Australian title by 12 as of Friday. Both have had more than 700 runners for a strike rate of about 19 per cent. Peter Moody is running third on 117, but with 592 runners and 20 per cent. If strike rates are so important, what about Bjorn Baker, successful with another winner at Warwick Farm on Saturday? Baker has had limited runners in what is progressing to be a cracker season. Name game Even Ken Howard, the master of racecourse diction, would have had trouble with Hoof Hearted. Rejected names for horses on The Graham Norton Show is doing the rounds on YouTube. Actor Minnie Driver was co-opted for the read. Most are "MA" but Hoof Hearted raced in the US. Try it fast. The announcer had difficulty, as did Driver. And how would Howard have handled it? "Hoof Hearted by a nose," would resonate. For the record I'm looking to you, as a fellow dinosaur of the turf, to help dispel the growing myth that Black Caviar is now searching 'for a 14th group 1 victory to equal the Australian record of Kingston Town,' wrote Brian Burfitt. You know, as I do, that the title 'group' was coined only comparatively recently in historical terms [in 1979] to identify the highest standard of thoroughbred horse races in Australia - before that they were collectively known as 'principal races.' The so-called 'Australian record' bandied about is in fact a record only of 'the modern era', since 1979. The rich history going back over 100 years is effectively expunged from the record books as a result and the deeds of the past greats of racing are effectively ignored ... The actual list of winners of the principal and group races presents a very different picture - 14 wins? Try 27 as the benchmark set by Phar Lap and Tulloch! Refer to australianracingrecords.com.au for one source (incomplete as it seems). Former Tulloch Lodge galloper Betrayal produced excellent figures to win a trial last week, and looks set to continue the winning streak for new trainer Bjorn Baker. Shamal Wind, $6.50 in the Oakleigh, finished 12th after being seen by a vet at the barriers. Stewards could find no excuses except "an abrasion over the off-side eye."