Lekvarte remained unbeaten this preparation with another impressive display at Rosehill on Saturday.
The grey daughter of Westbury Stud resident Reliable Man had been a smart first-up winner at Newcastle last month and the five-year-old followed up with further success over 1400 metres for trainer Joseph Pride and rider Tommy Berry.
Lekvarte had tackled black-type competition in her final appearance last season and finished a creditable sixth in the Listed Tatts Gold Crow at Eagle Farm.
As is her style, she settled well back in the field at Rosehill before she improved near the turn and she mowed her rivals down in the straight to give them all weight and a beating under her 61.5kg impost.
The G3 Belle of the Turf Stakes at Gosford on December 28 is now a likely target.
“That most definitely looks like a nice race for her. She’s one of my favourite horses, so I wanted to see her run well,” Pride’s Racing Manager Orla Pearl said.
“We’ve been really confident in her in this preparation. She had surgery on her knees earlier in her career and she came back and had a really good preparation afterwards.
“She just drifted off after that for whatever reason. I don’t know what happened, but I think we just put a line through that whole preparation. Now she’s back to the horse that we knew.”
She was bred by Stewart Hume and was purchased out of Westbury’s 2020 draft at New Zealand Bloodstock’s National Yearling Sale for $210,000 by BK Racing & Breeding and Andrew Williams Bloodstock.
Lekvarte is a daughter of the Encosta De Lago mare Plumm and is a half-sister to the multiple winner and stakes performer Total Power.
Their dam Madame Plume was successful on seven occasions and finished runner-up in the G1 South Australian Oaks.