Trainer Mark Kavanagh has some unfinished business ahead with his classy Starcraft three year-old Celebrity Girl.

Racing first-up on Saturday, the lightly-raced filly overcame a wide berth in running for a first-up victory in the LR Redelva Stakes at Morphettville.  She won by a half-length from Go The Knuckle (Elvstroem) and Draw Forward (Charge Forward).

Celebrity Girl (3f Starcraft – Dashing Granada by Keltrice) has been given time to mature by connections and she will repay that patience this time in.  “She is well above average,” Kavanagh said.  “She settles well and her mother’s side of the family suggests she will be able to get over ground.”

Raced by Trevor and Beth Robertson, she won at Sandown on debut in April and, after a winter spell, returned for a first-up victory in the Listed VRC Cap D’Antibes Stakes at Flemington in September.

Celebrity Girl was then demoted to fourth for interference in the G3 1000 Guineas Prelude at Caulfield and followed up with a G2 third in the Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington.  Her spring carnival finished with an unplaced effort behind star stablemate Atlantic Jewel in the G1 1000 Guineas at Caulfield.

Kavanagh bought Celebrity Girl for $500,000 from Yarraman Park at the 2010 Inglis Easter yearling sale.  “She was a pretty good sort,” Kavanagh recalled.  “She had a massive girth and a really nice walk.”

The Redelva Stakes winner is Starcraft’s most expensive yearling .  He got her from Flemington stakes winner Dashing Granada who has a 2yo filly by Rock of Gibraltar and a yearling filly by Lonhro.  She foaled a Starcraft colt in September and was then bred back to the Arrowfield resident.

Starcraft stands at Arrowfield Stud for a $44,000 (inc gst) service fee and he has 11 yearlings catalogued for the Inglis Melbourne Premier starting on Monday.