Drumbeats gave trainer Peter Snowden cause to seriously think about starting in next week’s Epsom when proving far too classy for a strong field in today’s Group 3 Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m) at Randwick.

Turffontein opened the new season Group 1 winning account for Inglis, as graduates had a field day winning seven stakes races in Melbourne and Sydney today.

Inglis graduates rounded out the spring carnival the same way it had begun – with another emphatic Group 1 victory, this time via Belong To Me’s outstanding five-year-old All Silent.