Nick Moraitis made a rare appearance at a midweek city meeting and the filly he came to see made the effort worthwhile.

Most famous as the owner of champion Might And Power, Moraitis made the trip to Canterbury on Wednesday to watch two-year-old Arabian Gold claim the Become An ATC Sponsor Handicap (1550m).

Arabian Gold has now won three of her five starts and trainer David Vandyke plans to give her the chance to make the transition to the top grade in the spring.

"It's wonderful to have Nick here today. He hasn't been too well," Vandyke said.

"This is a very competitive filly and the exciting thing is she ran the distance right out."

Vandyke will give Arabian Gold one more start in a 1600-metre race at Randwick two weeks from Saturday.

She will then have a short break and return for the fillies races in the spring when she will be given the chance to earn her place in the Group One Flight Stakes (1600m) at Randwick in October.

"Her long-term aim is a race like the Flight Stakes," Vandyke said.

"She is tough and those sort of fillies can be competitive in those sort of races."

Moraitis, who will be represented by Destiny's Kiss and Fiumicino in the Grafton Cup on Thursday, said plans for Arabian Gold will be left to Vandyke with whom he has "six or seven horses".

But he was rapt to be on track for Wednesday's victory by a filly he has been associated with all her life.

"She's a homebred which is good," Moraitis said.

The only hiccup in Arabian Gold's half-length win over Stamina was that she had to earn it again in the stewards' room.

Josh Parr on the runner-up lodged an objection against Blake Shinn on the winner for interference near the 500 metres.

Parr said his mount suffered the backwash of Shinn's manoeuvre to ease the favourite away from the fence at that point, and to the outside of the leaders' heels.

"I was nearly dislodged," Parr said.

However, stewards weren't satisfied the result was affected and Arabian Gold kept the race.

Shinn later received a reprimand for the incident.