Wayne Carroll hopes Sumdeel can head towards next year's Wagga Gold Cup

Sumdeel ($7.00) stamped herself as a filly with a big future when she captured the Navigate Advisors Class One & Maiden Showcase Plate (1600m)on Town Plate day.

Carroll has always held a high opinion of Sumdeel and she put it all together for the first time on Thursday when downing a promising field.

She will now go to the paddock but Carroll hopes she can be looking at the main event, the Wagga Gold Cup, in 12 months time.

"You always plan and hope that it's going to happen," Carroll said.

"She's by Dundeel out of a Redoute's Choice mare so we've got to have high expectations of her."

After enjoying her maiden win over a mile, Carroll has no doubt that she is screaming out for 2000 metres.

"She's got 2000 metres written all over her," he said.

"She just needs to go and grow and develop. She's a three-year-old filly and win, lose or draw she was going to the paddock.

"She loses a lot of condition after a race, every race. It's so hard to try and keep condition on her. She gets really light. But it's exciting what we've got to work with."

Carroll said there was plenty to like about the win.

"It was a nice race. A nice field," he said.

"She's getting up to her ground now, and just with more time, she's learning and coming on.

"She got flattened at the start. But she kicked back up and then she went to sleep. She's done that her last two starts now so what we've been trying to teach her, is coming along. If she wants to run a bit of ground she's got to go to sleep in the run. And today she done that.

"When it looked like the race was there to be won, she couldn't sprint quick enough, she hit a flat spot, but she took a couple of whacks, she could have turned it up and said that's enough, she's a bit at the end of her prep too but she didn't, she got going and was going better than anything on the line."

Sumdeel was strong on the line and won running away from placegetters, Exotic Deel ($3.70) and Mahsinger ($10).

She was ridden to victory by Brodie Loy.

Carroll was laid up watching the race from home on Thursday, after undergoing shoulder surgery earlier in the week.

He said he got a 'good thrill' cheering the mare home for another Wagga carnival win for his stable.

"It was exciting. Sitting here, yelling at the TV. It was fun," he said.

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