The $700,000, Group I, Schweppes Sydney Cup (3200m) completed a number of milestones for the winner’s trainer and jockey at the Australian Jockey Club’s final day of its Autumn Racing Carnival at Randwick on Saturday.

No Wine No Song is trained by Randwick based Kevin Moses, and he was ridden by Damien Oliver.

Moses, 55, twice the leading jockey in Sydney, won the Sydney Cup at a wet Randwick in 1989 on the Neville Begg trained Palace Revolt as a jockey, and on Saturday he won it as a trainer.

Oliver had ridden five runners-up in Group I races this season in the Melbourne Cup (Purple Moon), Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap (Magnus), the Australian Cup, Ranvet Stakes and The BMW (Princess Coup), the Doncaster Handicap (Casino Prince) and Australian Oaks (Boundless).

He won the previous race to the Sydney Cup, the Group I Queen Elizabeth Stakes on the Mike Moroney trained Sarrera, to get that particular monkey off his back, and then won on No Wine No Song to not only make it successive Group I wins in successive races for the first time.

It was also completed a clean sweep of wins in the metropolitan cups, the Sydney Cup, Melbourne Cup, Brisbane Cup, Adelaide Cup and Perth Cup for Oliver.

Oliver rode the perfect race settling No Wine No Song in fifth on the rails and from there he was able to track every aspect of the running.

Play Me (GB) and Jeff Lloyd took up the running and took the field down the main straight for the first time. They maintained a good pace down the side and into the back straight. The Chieftain James Innes, and Young Centaur and Corey Brown were in close attendance, and Oliver was stalking them all.

Pentathon (NZ) and Shane Dye were one off the rail entering the main straight for the final time coming from further back, and taking the inside run. Young Centaur was next, and Oliver went around these two for his run. Passing the 200m mark No Wine No Song was just heading Pentathon.

Oliver asked No Wine No Song for more passing the 100m and the six-year-old found the gear, and that put the race beyond doubt for a 1L win. Pentathon (Pentire) was second and Lang (NZ) (Lord Ballina) came into third, the margin 1 1/4L.

The time was 3.25.51 and the final 600m was covered in 35.86 on the dead (5) track. No Wine No Song paid $3.30 on NSW TAB.

“He rode it very well, it makes a big difference. I knew I had done my job and he did his job,” said Moses.

“He is a lovely horse. You could bring him in here and take him for dinner and he has got better manners than some of these people you eat with. He is just a lovely horse,” he exclaimed.

“No one goes to that stallion, Look at his breeding. If people want to get interested in breeding stayers they want to go to him,” he said of No Wine No Song’s sire Song Of Tara (Sadler’s Wells).

Moses said that Melbourne was next for No Wine No Song. “He does stay,” he said.

“He will have a short break and then we will look at the spring and The Metropolitan and races like that, and then probably Melbourne.

Moses started training in 2002 after retiring from riding and this was his first Group I winner.

“You get more satisfaction out of training them as you have them for so long. As a jockey you are just on and off them. Damien has never ridden him in trackwork, so just rides him race-days and gets everything. I have to feed him and wash him, and take him to the beach,” he said with a grin.

“I love the horse and the staff love the horse, and I spend a lot of time with him, and there is a little girl who rides him at trackwork, the kids have learnt on him, he is just the perfect horse.

“Damien thinks he rode him, but the horse knows what he is doing,” he said with the grin again.

“I was confident at the top of the straight as I had such a lovely run. He relaxed for me and when Pentathon came through I knew he was the danger and I went with him and he really found for me today,” said Oliver.  “It was probably his best win.

“I think he would be competitive in a Melbourne Cup. He stays well, he would probably get in with a nice weight and he is very relaxed,” he said.

Song Of Tara is out of the Kinjite mare Deep Time and this was his second win in succession after an equally fine win in the Group II Chairman’s Handicap over 2600m last Saturday. Overall his record now stands at nine wins and nine places, with stakes for owners Tobermory Stud, managed by JA and Mrs T O’Gara, of $1,023,580.