Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray wouldn’t usually present a horse to the races without a trial, but that indicated how much they thought of Tassort filly Love The Sort, and she bolted in on debut at the Cambridge Synthetic on Wednesday.

The filly’s success was the first leg of a winning double for the stable, with Ritchie on course while Murray celebrated his birthday in the warmer climes of Queensland.

“I’ve just got back from the States and had a fantastic experience over there, and Colm took off this morning to go to the Gold Coast,” Ritchie said.

“Really, he’s done the hard work on the horses winning today, and I get to stand there and count the money.”

Easy in the market, Love The Sort had a luxury featherlight weight of 51.5kg under Rihaan Goyaram and the two-year-old fired through the pack to find the lead and never looked like being caught going on to win by two lengths.

“I think it’s the first time in as long as I can remember that we’ve presented a horse at the races without having a barrier trial,” Ritchie said.

“She’s shown us plenty of speed, and now that she’s used to the poly, we knew she had a great turn of foot on it.

“In the couple of jump-outs she’s had, she’s been a little ginger out of the gate, but we were prepared to take the risk on that, knowing how fast she was.

“After missing the kick slightly, she’s managed to get on to the fence, and we know she can rail like a little bit of a greyhound. I just love the way that she pinned her ears back and wanted to find the line, you can’t train that into them.”

Love The Sort was a $42,500 purchase by Ritchie at the Magic Millions’ Gold Coast Yearling Sale from Emirates Park.

“She just looked like a real runner to me,” he said. “Colm and I are aware that our best results have come in the staying races, with Cups and Oaks, and we probably prefer to train stayers, but having said that, we’ve got to keep up with the times.

“She’s just average-sized, but she’s built like a bullet, and we wanted to develop a sprinting type. As a two-year-old, that didn’t come up for us, we had to back off for maturity reasons, and that’s paid us back a little bit today.”

Ritchie indicated the filly would be off to the paddock at short notice, but she would be back for the early spring.

“She’ll almost certainly go for a break now, and then we’ll look at some three-year-old fillies races for her,” he said.

“She may be limited to that 1200m, so we’ll probably have to take the season early, because as we know with the three-year-olds, the distances step up the further you get into the summer.”

Love the Sort is the first winner for Siyaadeh, a winning half-sister by Written Tycoon to stakes-winner Adelong from the family of Group I winners Snowland and Return to Conquer.