Melbourne, February 4 – Australian record priced filly Perfect Persuasion showed marked improvement on her even debut effort last month to gain Black Type with a strong finishing third to leading Blue Diamond fancy Sleek Chassis in the Listed VRC Talindert Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

The full sister to champion filly Alinghi, purchased for $2.6 million from the draft of Yarraman Park Stud at the 2006 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, has taken a while to come to hand and trainer Lee Freedman is confident the filly will be far better suited at distances longer than the 1000 metres of Saturday’s contest.

The yearling full sister to Alinghi and Perfect Persuasion will be offered by Yarraman Park at the 2007 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale amongst a stellar draft of 18 outstanding youngsters.