Filly Might follow in great stayer's strides White, grey sash and pink-striped sleeves are forever synonymous with Caulfield Cup day. They were the silks worn by the champion Might And Power when he blitzed the field with an all-the-way seven-length win in the great race in 1997. Arabian Gold is a three-year-old filly and might need several careers to match the illustrious deeds of her owner's all-time great, which also won a Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate. But she has her foot on the bottom rung of racing's ladder of opportunity, having triumphed at listed race level in the $120,000 Ethereal Stakes over 2000 metres. Trainer David Vandyke will give the daughter of Dubawi the chance to score her first triumph at elite level in the group 1 VRC Oaks over 2500m - providing she comes through her next test, the 2000m Wakeful Stakes on Derby Day, a traditional pipe opener for the Oaks fillies competing over the longer distance five days later. Michael Walker on board Suavito. Arabian Gold, which had come within 1.8 and 3.2 lengths of champion filly Guelph at her two most recent starts in Sydney, in the group 2 Tea Rose Stakes and group 1 Flight Stakes, was a solid $3.20 favourite as her form entitled her to be. Nothing she met in the Ethereal had anything like her references, and jockey Peter Robl rode her confidently, hitting the front some way from home to pass the always prominent Solicit ($7), who fought on well, to win by half a length from the Matt Ellerton/Simon Zahra-trained runner. Another Sydneysider in Clarry Conners' Refer ($26) was a length and a quarter away in third spot, getting the better of Melaleuca and Every Faith in a blanket finish for the minor placing. Robbie Laing always seems to have a staying type ready for the Victoria Derby and Polanski confirmed his credentials by winning the Norman Robinson Stakes at Caulfield. However, Laing, who declared that Polanski was a certainty for the November 2 Derby, was keen to talk up the chances of Dark Thunder after the group 3 event. "I like my other colt as well," Laing said. He had his second start in a race [at Cranbourne] last Friday and came from last and won over 2000 metres. He is the equal of this horse [Polanski] and we will see how he goes in the Derby trial at Geelong on Wednesday. It was a mighty rap after Polanski made it back-to-back wins coming over the top of favourite San Diego to score by a head as the pair gapped the rest of the field by four lengths. Epic Saga was third. Suavito and Huckleback are set to meet in the Carbine Club Stakes, which opens the Flemington carnival, after scoring impressive wins at Caulfield on Saturday. Nigel Blackiston praised the ride of Michael Walker on Suavito in the Sunrise Cup and said it was obvious she was looking for further than the 1400m. There's a nice 1400-metre race at Flemington on Cup day which we might look at, but the way she raced today she might be better over a mile so I might talk to the owners and put her in the Carbine Club. I was really pleased with what she's done in the three weeks between runs. Phillip Stokes had similar comments after Huckleback won the Gothic Stakes. "I said to Dom [Tourneur] when I put him up, we don't want any hard-luck stories this time, so I wasn't worried about him lobbing outside the leader ... he looked good a long way out and put them away," Stokes said. We will get him home and reassess him, I might look at a Carbine Club ... he's come a long way in a short time. I trained his mother [Kondari], she showed a lot of ability as a young horse but broke down early. It was, finally, Liesele's day again as she won Saturday's Alinghi Stakes at Caulfield. She is one of those mare's that everything has to go right for her. One thing goes wrong and that's it, it's all over," said jockey Damian Browne after weaving a path to victory close to the fence. It happens about one in every 10 races and today was her day. From that alley I had no option and I was going to get stuck out in no-man's land with the wind so I rode for luck and everything just fell into place. When she got going I thought this is going all right and then things kept opening up, and she won quite well. It gave Liam Birchley a second winner at Caulfield after Missy Longstocking took out the Thoroughbred Club Stakes seven days earlier. Even though she jumped from the outside Liesele only went around Sumakaray to beat her by three-quarters of a length with Lonhspresso third. Jockeys were having a good look at a swarm of bees in a tree near the barrier before the Gothic Stakes. Nash Rawiller, who rode Havana, said it was concerning. "They were on a tree near the barriers but seemed to just be staying there," Rawiller said. It was quite dangerous, especially if they decided to move. I was actually worried one of us might swallow one.