Testa Rossa has another star on the horizon.  Patinack Farm filly Pane In The Glass put the Vinery sire in the frame for another Group 1 when she strolled home in the $250,000 Inglis Classic at Randwick on Saturday.

Pane In The Glass is now a clear cut favourite for the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield on February 26.  Testa Rossa ran second to Redoute’s Choice in the 1999 Diamond.

The Inglis Classic could be the first leg of a feature double for Testa Rossa.  He has high-profile sprinter Ortensia all set for a first-up tilt in the G2 Australia Stakes at Moonee Valley this Friday night.

Pane In The Glass (2f Testa Rossa – Lyrics by Bluebird) scored on debut at Eagle Farm and followed up in the Inglis Nursery in December.  “She’s a real nice filly and doing everything so easily at the moment,” jockey Jim Byrne said.   “She just cruised up and when I got serious she really accelerated.”

The Testa Rossa filly romped to a near six length victory over Collestrada (Strada) and Pure Force (Beautiful Crown).

Pane In The Glass was sold for $32,000 by Sledmere Stud at the 2010 Inglis Classic Sale and his Excellent Art half-sister is catalogued as Lot 60 at this year’s Classic Sale.

Her dam Lyrics was a winner at her home track when trained by Guy Walter.  She has been a reliable winner getter when mated with Gold Fever, Gilded Time, Fuji Kiseki, More Than Ready, Hussonet, Dubleo and now Testa Rossa.

Lyrics is a half-sister to brilliant sprinter Gold Brose (Huntingdale).  He won the G2 STC Silver Slipper and G2 VRC Linlithgow Stakes and was well on the way to a sensational career at stud in NZ when he died after just five crops.  His winning strike-rate panned out at 69%.

Inglis graduates have a great record in the Blue Diamond with seven of the past 11 Diamonds including successive Classic graduates Road To Success ($18,000), True Jewels ($28,000) and Bel Esprit ($9000).