Ferlax gets inside run on Guineas Rails run ... Stephen Baster drives Ferlax along the fence to race away from rivals to claim the group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington on Saturday. EVEN given the absence of Australia's finest three-year-old All Too Hard on Saturday, trainer Jim Conlan believes there is a place for his colt, Ferlax, this autumn after his win in the Australian Guineas at Flemington. Conlan said he had always believed Ferlax would be a horse to be reckoned with, and his judgment was vindicated when Ferlax won the group 1 race at only his fourth start. Ferlax, which settled on the speed, managed to gain an inside run at the 300m mark to claim victory and at the same time give jockey Stephen Baster another major race success since returning from Singapore after the club refused to reissue him with a new riding licence. "I galloped him on Tuesday where I put the blinkers on and just sat him off a horse, an ordinary horse, but I sat him back off it and he gave me a great feel," Conlan said. And Conlan believes that Ferlax's autumn is far from over. He is prepared to take the youngster to Sydney possibly for the All Aged Stakes or even a trip to Brisbane for the Stradbroke. "We've got Sydney coming up but it might even be ideal to back off him and look at maybe going to the All Aged or maybe even going to the Stradbroke while he is still going to get in OK with the weights," he said. Conlan said that it was an added pleasure to prepare Ferlax for long-time owner Jonathan Munz. "It's great for Jonathan, he's got the mare and he is a very exciting horse this bloke," Conlan said. I've had a couple of group 1 winners for him but it's been a while and there was a bit of a shake-up at the stables but we've come back punching. It's a bit unfortunate for [jockey] Daniel [Stackhouse] because he hasn't done anything wrong on the horse and he's come down and trialled him for me but he got suspended so Stephen was the next up. I was mixing the feeds when I was listening to the radio and I heard the sad news for team Hawkes [who train All Too Hard] but I thought it gave us a real chance. Baster was understandably elated by Saturday's group 1 victory, and said: "It's just a big thrill to come home and have the run I've had. I haven't ridden for Jim for a long time but he put the faith in me and we've got the money. I won the Tasmanian Oaks for him [Munz] the other night so it's a great partnership to start off and his horse is obviously going to go on now. Jim put the shades on him today and he was a bit revvy going into the gates so I thought it might have been a mistake. That's why I'm the jockey and he's the trainer, he has got it spot on. Ferlax was the medium of some support late in betting firming from $21 in to $17 and scored by a half-length from filly You're So Good at $9.50 with Sheer Talent three-quarters of a length away in third at $9 after as much as $13 had been bet about the three-year-old. Ironically, Baster scored on Sheer Talent at Flemington two weeks ago but was replaced by stable rider Michael Rodd in the Guineas. The change of rider left Baster to take the ride on Ferlax. However, the performance of the Mark Kavanagh-trained Sheer Talent was excellent considering he had to come from the outside barrier to race on the pace only to be beaten in the last 100m.