She may not have won, but trainer John Sargent was pleased with So Dazzling’s (NZ) (So You Think) third-placed run in the wet over 1880m at Newcastle on Tuesday.

The daughter of So You Think is an equal $6 favourite with New Zealand raider She’s Licketysplit (NZ) (Turn Me Loose) for the Gr.1 Victoria Oaks (2500m), with the latter runnning third in Wednesday’s Gr.1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield.

“I am very happy. She has come through it well,” Sargent told RSN of So Dazzling.

“It just didn’t pan out, we had to get back from the draw (13) and the outside of the track was a no go zone.

“William Pike said he was behind a couple of slow horses, so he had to get out and going. We had to run to set us up for the Wakeful (Gr.2, 2000m) and the Oaks.

“She will be heading down there in a couple of weeks, with Damien Oliver to ride.”

So Dazzling was purchased out of Beaufort Downs’ 2021 New Zealand Bloodstock Book 1 Yearling Sale draft by bloodstock agent Duncan Ramage in partnership with Sargent for $200,000.

She has won impressively in her second start at Flemington last start, putting her into favouritism calculations for the Oaks.