Tentyris continued his excellent 2025 spring form on Saturday, winning the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) first-up by 0.75 lengths.

Question marks were put on the three-year-old’s head prior to the million-dollar race as it was his first start against older horses, but the colt took that step up to Weight-For-Age racing in magnificent order.

The Anthony & Sam Freedman-trained chestnut spent majority of the sprint at the back of the Flemington straight, stalking My Gladiola, before bolting past the entire field.

Reflecting on the scintillating victory, RSN’s Nick Noonan has hailed the triumph as a “generational performance” and believes Tentyris could potentially go down as one of Australia’s all-time great sprinters.

“What an outrageous win… I don’t think horses can go much faster than he did in the last 200m,” Nick told RSN’s Correct Weight.

“He put down a generational performance. That was a win of a superstar.

“He's now got two outrageous wins in a Coolmore and now a Lightning Stakes. If he's able to go on to win a Newmarket... He really could go down as one of the greats.

“I think over the last sort of 10 years, we've had a few really good sprinters - Nature Strip probably sits right at the top with Chautauqua - but he looks a horse that can propel himself into that conversation if he's not already in there off his last two wins.

“He's got the style factor to put himself in the conversation.”

The son of Street Boss is now the $1.75 favourite with Sportsbet for Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1000m) on March 7.

Nick’s brother, Trav Noonan, believes that Tentyris is clearly the horse to beat in that $2 million Group 1, but Nick did his brother one better – he claimed that the colt will be the horse to beat in every race he competes in across the next 12 months.

Trav: “I think from a Newmarket perspective, they've all got the task ahead to beat Tentyris.”

Nick: “I think every sprinter in Australia might have the task to beat him wherever they match up against him in the next 12 months.

“Because we've sort of had a few that we think, ‘Oh, is this going to be the next star?’

“It was Lady Shenandoah when she should've won first-up last campaign. Joliestar’s sort of been at the top, but she's fairly vulnerable and she's never really put away a massive race. Angel Capital sort of burst onto the scene.

“But this guy (Tentyris), you could maybe argue he's been the top for a while. He was unlucky not to win a Blue Diamond, then he won a Todman. He probably would've been right in the betting for a Slipper.

“His biggest Grand Final in the spring, the Coolmore, he bolts in, and now in the Lightning he's as dominant a winner as you'll see from back in the field.

“Like he really could have been the best horse of his age group for 12 months just without a whole lot of evidence to sort of back it up.

Trav: “Yep, I think that's a very fair point.”

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