Race Result:

1st: Amazonian Lass (Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott/Adam Hyeronimus) - $13
2nd: Molly Bloom (Lance O'Sullivan and Andrew Scott/Opie Bosson) - $2.70
3rd (dead heat): Mare Of Mt Buller (Chris Waller/Tommy Berry) - $18
3rd (dead heat): Kind Words (Kris Lees/Ryan Maloney) - $16

Winning Time: 1:54.86  Last 600m: 37.63

Margins: 1-¾-L x Long head

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Winning Trainer: Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott (Adrian Bott speaking)

Improved from first-up second: "She was first-up over the mile so I always felt there was a significant amount of improvement coming here today. She's been a top-class filly all the way through. A Wakeful winner during the carnival in the spring and ran a great race in the VRC Oaks.

"We had plans to go through Sydney and things just didn't quite come up as well as we'd hoped so we just had to take a backward step and set her for the carnival here. She's really enjoyed the conditions up here, she's thrived and I think there's still further improvement as she gets over further."

The Roses next and then Queensland Oaks: "That's the plan. She'll go through both of those and I think there's continued improvement from her."

On the filly: "She's a lovely big filly. There's plenty of size and strength to her. We knew she would sustain a nice campaign. Just having had that grounding in the spring that really helped bring her along and seasoned her up for what's hopefully going to be another successful campaign up here."

Winning Jockey: Adam Hyeronimus

On winning a feature at the Sunshine Coast: "I'm very proud obviously for what Dad's achieved here and to come up and, last time I was here I was able to win a stakes race, to win another stakes race here at Caloundra is fantastic for me. And I'm sure Mum and Dad are at home and very happy."

On Amazonian Lass: "She went fantastic first-up and she really deserved to win that race and just got pipped on the post. It took her a while to come back this preparation and get to the form that she's in now, and that's probably just off the back of last preparation. She tried so hard in some of those races and it just took her a little bit to get going. She obviously loves to travel away, she showed that when she went to Melbourne and she improved. She came up here and ran fantastic first-up and she looked fantastic in the yard. Gai and Adrian were happy how she's been doing up here in Queensland."

On the win: "She obviously liked the conditions. We were able to end up in a beautiful spot during the run without doing any work. And I didn't expect to be where I was but she was happy, travelled great, got through the conditions and showed a good turn of foot at the top of the straight. Like last start she was very strong late so she's only going to improve again off that.