Gai flexes muscles with five winners Fine return: Tommy Berry and Driefontein win the Sheraco Stakes. The spring has sprung and Gai Waterhouse confirmed her status as the queen of Australian racing after dominating around the country on Saturday. "We're sizzling aren't we - I must have lost all my distractions," she said when asked why her stable was on fire. Waterhouse had a treble in Melbourne and double in Sydney, highlighted by the win of Driefontein in the Sheraco Stakes, the mare's first victory in 18 months. Waterhouse also found a new stable star when Ecuador romped home earlier in the day, but it was Driefontein's win that made her realise that her plans for a Myer Classic tilt were well within her horse's grasp. "She's come back super and I want to take her down to Melbourne for the Myer Classic, I've had that in my mind all along," she said. She had to win today to pay her air fare and she's such a tenacious mare. She'll improve on that, too, and she's such a lovely horse. Driefontein chased runaway leader Ichihara in the early stages before catching the her at the 250-metre mark to dash away in race-record time from Peron and Arctic Flight. Tommy Berry said the one-length win gave him confidence that a mile was not beyond Driefontein. "She went really well today and I rode her tough because I think that 1400m to a mile is going to be her pet distance this preparation," he said. I got a bit of cover there and I was happy enough to get out and get going early because I thought she'd be tough to the line and she was. She wasn't fully wound up today, so it was good. Berry said Driefontein was back in form following a below-par three-year-old season where she didn't produce the form she showed in winning the Magic Millions as a two-year-old. She just didn't come up last preparation, she still felt more like a two-year-old, but now she feels more like a colt. She's really strengthened up and grown and I couldn't be happier with her, the mile will be no problem," Berry said. When they're that good as a two-year-old, you don't expect them to be the same as a four-year-old. Runner-up Peron ran a super race and flew home after finding difficulties soon after jumping. "I got a little bit of a squeeze at the start and got back a bit further than I wanted to," jockey Jim Cassidy said. When we let down, we got home really well and it was a nice effort considering how they went up front. Third placegetter Arctic Flight was niggled at all the way by Peter Robl, who said it was a gutsy performance to run so close. It was a really nice effort first-up. She's a bit of a grinder and she just kept finding the line," Robl said. Waterhouse's best-performed Melbourne winner was Fiorente in the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley, and she said it put her six-year-old on target for the Cox Plate. "Fiorente worked the other day on the dirt and then I gave him a bit extra and sent him back on the grass," she said. I'm going to take Fiorente on to the Turnbull [Stakes] at Flemington and then onto the Cox Plate.