Sensibility could not have done any more at Mornington on Thursday to encourage hopes she will line up in the $500,000 Thousand Guineas at Caulfield on Wednesday, October 16.

The daughter of Arrowfield champion Redoute’s Choice powered home from a tricky midfield position to win her debut by more than a length in the Helen Beattie Plate (1227m).

Trained by Peter Moody for his wife Sarah, Sensibility was a $260,000 purchase from Widden Stud at the 2012 Inglis Easter Sale.  “Impressive winning debut from Sensibility,” MoodyRacing tweeted.

The filly was bred by Widden and Robert Anderson from the USA-bred mare Fleeting Touch, who was purchased as a 2YO for $130,000 by Vin Cox from the 2006 Keeneland November Breedin Sale.

Fleeting Touch (Touch Gold), an unraced half-sister to champion US 2YO colt Midshipman, is already the dam of G2 winner Running Tall and stakes-placed winner Ephemera.  Her fourth foal is a yearling colt by Redoute’s Choice and the mare is in foal to More Than Ready.

Redoute’s Choice was Australia’s leading sire of 3YO stakes winners last season with 9, including Australian Oaks G1 winner Royal Descent.   Of his 23 Group 1 winners, 17 have won at that level as 3YOs.

Redoute’s Choice was leading sire at the 2013 Inglis Easter Sale for the ninth year in a row and he was also represented by the all-time Australasian record yearling price of $5 million for the Helsinge colt.

That all happened when he was covering a first northern book at The Aga Khan’s French base at Haras de Bonneval.  His latest southern season starts on Sunday morning at a $137,500 (inc gst) fee.