Mick Price has a new Blue Diamond favourite after Samaready's stunning Prelude win

Mick Price headed to today's Caulfield meeting as the trainer of the $1 million Patinack Farm Blue Diamond Stakes favourite and he left in the same enviable position, albeit with a different horse.

Malasun held sway at the top of pre-post betting for the 25 February feature after her debut victory in the Preview on Australia Day, but it's stablemate Samaready who now holds that position.

After impressing on the training track, Samaready was sent out a $4.20 favourite in today's Group 3 $125,000 Blue Diamond Fillies Prelude (1100m) and didn't let punters down with an easy 3.3-length victory.

Second across the line was Formidable ($10) with Sweetner ($7) a length back in third as Malasun ($7) wilted to run sixth, eight lengths behind her stablemate, after racing fiercely on the pace.

The victory was Samaready's second from as many appearances and the daughter of More Than Ready earned rave reviews from premiership-leading jockey Craig Newitt.

“The amount this filly has improved since her first preparation is unbelievable,” he said.

“I haven't ridden a lot of good two-year-olds but she is the best I've sat on.

“All she wants to do this preparation is relax and travel so come Blue Diamond day she will be 110%.”

Samaready ran 1:03.38 for the 1100-metre journey, almost a second quicker than General Rippa did to claim the Colts Prelude earlier in the program.

Price, who prepared Roedean to win the 2003 Blue Diamond only to lose the race after the filly returned a positive swab, is confident Samaready will prove had to beat in a fortnight.

“I think the margin, the time and the way she found were a little bit like Flemington in the way that she found that extra gear while hear she copped a little bit of a niggle but it certainly points pretty strongly towards her running a nice 1200 metres next time,” he said.

“Physically if you look at her from December to now……she's a different colour in the coat, bright in the eye, stronger and I think there should be some improvement from today.”

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