Ciaron Maher’s mare Jameka has made history dominating the Caulfield Cup 2016 results with a dominant win in the mile and a half classic.

She came off the perfect spring preparation heading into the $3.15 million Group 1 BMW Caulfield Cup (2400m) and it all came to fruition when she saluted for the punters as the race favourite in back-to-back years following the success of Mongolian Khan (2015) last year.

The first Caulfield Cup winning mare since Southern Speed (2011), Jameka became the shortest-priced mare to salute in the feature since Leilani ($3.25 in 1974).

Locally-trained, Jameka ($4.20) held off not only the boys in the Caulfield Cup finishing order but also the strong international contingent with the Charlie Appleby-trained English raider Scottish ($7) running second for Godolphin and the Lee & Anthony Freedman-trained import Exospheric ($15) third in his maiden run in Australia.

It was Maher’s first major and jockey Nicholas Hall, who wasted to get down to the 52.5kg lightweight, enjoyed his second Caulfield Cup success after the victory three years ago aboard Fawkner (2013).

Jameka is now a dual Group 1 winner having also won the Crown Oaks as a three-year-old last Melbourne Cup Carnival, her Caulfield Cup success making her the first to complete that double in over 100 years.

She came off a last-start second to star Sydney galloper Hartnell in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes (2000m) at Flemington, form that held up once again in the Caulfield Cup with 15 of the past 18 winners of the latter having come through that race.

Jameka began well in the below capacity 16-starter Caulfield Cup field jumping from barrier 11 and going on to be the first Caulfield Cup winner from that gate since Diatribe (2000) 16 years ago.

There were a number of changes to the lead throughout the run, Tally first to scoot over and cross to hit the front from the top-weight Preferment in the early stages.

Jameka was also up on the speed with the Darren Weir-trained Real Love on her outside, Hall reading the race perfectly and timing this run to the second.

Hall kept his mare in the mix the whole time as the likes of Preferment and Real Love had their time up front setting the speed.

The favourite was travelling so smoothly getting a gun run in fifth.

With 1000m to go jockey Kerrin McEvoy went forward with the English visitor Scottish who ran to the front, Hall still happy to sit in fifth on the well-supported Jameka.

Scottish led into the home turn as Jameka raced right around the outside of her rivals running on well through the bend, Real Love also trying to thread through once on the straight.

Jameka started to really wind up and come after Scottish over the closing stages and she hit the lead at the 200m just as Exospheric and four-time Caulfield Cup winning jockey Damien Oliver started to run on from the back.

In the end it was an all-too-easy romp home as Jameka raced away to win by three lengths over Scottish and Exospheric; the mare stamping herself in the history books with the class win over the raiders.

It was a beautiful ride from Hall who got out quickly, took the trails and made the right moves at the right time.

“I have to really thank Ciaron Maher and the stable,” Hall said post-win.

“He’s done an exceptional job. The way he’s prepped this run by run, it’s been to win this race and he’s done it.

“It’s all worth it.”

Maher was full of credit to his team, Hall and of course his Caulfield Cup winner Jameka.

“It’s a credit to the team,” he said.

“And just Nick Hall, a perfect ride.

“Just fantastic, it’s one of the big three and we’re thrilled.”

Knowing his mare so well, Maher said he wasn’t worried when it looked like Jameka may have been over racing at one stage.

“She’s just a competitive horse,” he explained.

“And when those horses were outside her, she’s flicking her head about but she’s not actually over racing.

“About the 100 [meters] I thought ‘we’re kicking into gear now’ so I was wrapped.

“She’s quite a rare horse…I think she’s an extraordinary horse and I think she proved that today.”

Jameka holds nominations for both next Saturday’s $3 million Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley as well as the ‘race that stops a nation’, although the $6 million Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) over the two miles at Flemington on November 1 hasn’t really been the aim.

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2016 Caulfield Cup Results & Finishing Order

Caulfield Race 8 – 15/10/2016

Place	#	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Margin	Br.	Wgt.	SP
1	11	JAMEKA	Ciaron Maher	Nicholas Hall	–	11	52.5kg	$4.20F
2	4	SCOTTISH (IRE)	Charlie Appleby	Kerrin McEvoy	3L	6	55kg	$7
3	3	EXOSPHERIC (GB)	Lee & Anthony Freedman	Damien Oliver	3.75L	3	55.5kg	$15
4	7	ALMOONQITH (USA)	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Michael Walker	4.25L	2	54kg	$71
5	12	REAL LOVE	Darren Weir	Craig Williams	5L	9	52.5kg	$6.50
6	2	OUR IVANHOWE (GER)	Lee & Anthony Freedman	Dwayne Dunn	5.3L	5	56.5kg	$21
7	5	SIR ISAAC NEWTON (GB)	Aidan O’Brien	Colm O’Donoghue	6.55L	8	55kg	$16
8	20e	VENGEUR MASQUE (IRE)	Michael Moroney	Patrick Moloney	6.85L	15	50.5kg	$101
9	19e	DE LITTLE ENGINE	Danny O’Brien	Ben E Thompson (a)	7.35L	12	50.5kg	$61
10	8	SIR JOHN HAWKWOOD (IRE)	John P Thompson	Blake Spriggs	7.45L	4	53.5kg	$13
11	1	PREFERMENT (NZ)	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	7.65L	13	57kg	$26
12	10	TALLY	John O’Shea	Brenton Avdulla	7.85L	16	53kg	$19
13	9	ARTICUS (FR)	Andreas Wohler	Zac Purton	9.1L	10	53kg	$9.50
14	17	PEMBERLEY (NZ)	Ciaron Maher	Ben Allen (a)	10.85L	14	50.5kg	$31
15	15	SACRED MASTER (NZ)	Chris Waller	Tommy Berry	10.95L	7	51.5kg (cd 52kg)	$14
16	18	GO DREAMING	Grant Kluske	Ms Katelyn Mallyon	11.95L	1	50.5kg	$101
–	6	TARZINO (NZ)	Mick Price	Craig Newitt	–	0	–	–
–	13	SET SQUARE	Ciaron Maher	Michael Dee (a)	–	0	–	–
–	14	BIG MEMORY (FR)	Tony McEvoy	Chris Parnham	–	0	–	–
–	16	FANATIC (NZ)	Graeme Sanders	Dean Yendall	–	0	–	–