Rousillon has continued Godolphin's good start to the two-year-old season, capitalising on his race experience to post a classy win at Warwick Farm.
Starting at $5.50, the youngster lowered the colours of Deciduous, the first runner for freshman sire The Autumn Sun, unleashing a strong run down the outside to defeat the $2.35 favourite by a half-length with Chilled ($5) sticking on well for third.
A beautifully bred son of Exceed And Excel out of stakes winner Fitou, Rousillon had finished fourth on debut at Cranbourne last month and Darren Beadman, deputising for trainer James Cummings, said the breed were reliably proficient two-year-olds.
"He's a very professional horse. He did a lot of work up here before he went to Melbourne and he was a little bit green and better for the experience at Cranbourne," Beadman said.
"He has stamped himself over the years as a sire of young horses, Exceed And Excel, the way they conduct themselves on race day and the way they perform.
"He has been a real asset to Godolphin over the years and they're beautiful horses to work with."
Rousillon began smartly but was allowed to drift back in the field by Tyler Schiller, balancing up in the straight and storming down the outside as the favourite tried to navigate a narrow path between runners closer to the inside.
Schiller believes the winner is open to vast improvement and showed his class by spotting the leaders a start and running them down.
"He jumped a little too well, we wanted to let him settle and give him the chance to get around the track being a Victorian horse," Schiller said.
"He travelled really nicely, levelled up in the straight and I thought he put them away really nicely."
Cummings' trainer father Anthony was in the winner's circle a race later with Never Fails, who he hopes can go on with the job after leading throughout in the Kia Ora Stallions Handicap (1100m).
Never Fails placed once in three runs as a juvenile but returning as a gelding on Wednesday, he outsped his rivals to break his maiden in a performance stable spokesman Jonathon Crowley said replicated his trackwork at home.
"He's a pretty classy horse and he has been from day one," Crowley said.
"It has taken him a bit of time to show what he could do there today, but coming back a gelding, that can help them too."
Never Fails ($17) had almost two lengths to spare over Exsensible ($10) with Romeo's Choice ($14) third.