Treasurethe Moment “stamped herself as the potential star of the spring”, according to one report, with her dominant first-up win in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes on this weekend last year.

By the Monday she was the $6 second favourite for the Cox Plate behind reigning champion (and eventual winner) Via Sistina.

A subsequent colic scare and odds-on defeats in the Feehan and the Might And Power didn’t deter punters entirely. There was support for Treasurethe Moment on Cox Plate day and she started a $5.50 third favourite, running a solid third.

Notably the horse that gave Via Sistina a genuine fright that day was Buckaroo, who’d been among the beaten brigade in the Memsie.

Treasurethe Moment’s spring campaign ended with a fourth at Flemington in the Champions Mile — her only run on a heavy track and her only unplaced finish in 19 starts.

A three-start autumn campaign comprised an odds-on first-up defeat in the Futurity, a comfortable win over Group 2 mares in the Sunline (again at odds-on) and a third to Idle Flyer in the Queen of the Turf.

Treasurethe Moment will be back at Caulfield this Saturday, where she’ll be aiming to become the 12th horse to win the Memsie more than once. (The most recent was Behemoth in 2020 and ’21, before him Sunline in 2000 and ’01.)

Despite her remarkably consistent record at the highest level (nine Group 1 starts for four wins, a second, three thirds and a fourth), she is likely to start fourth or fifth favourite.

She is one of nine winners of 27 Group 1 races in Saturday’s field, and it’s worth noting that 18 of the past 21 Memsie winners have been established Group 1 winners going into the race. The exceptions were Mic Mac (2009), Behemoth (2020) and Pinstriped (2024).