Trainer-turned-television commentator Peter Moody had a hand in all three Vinery Stud placegetters as the father-and-son training partnership of Leon and Troy Corstens scored just their second group 1 win in a Vinery Stud Stakes boilover.

The race was marred by two ugly incidents of significant interference in the straight – the first of which almost unseated Corey Brown from Smart As You Think – as a tee-totalling Noel Callow drove through along the inside to win on Montoya's Secret.

Callow was grilled by stewards for checking Hugh Bowman on Foxplay in the final stages, costing Chris Waller's filly third as Nurse Kitchen and Harlow Gold filled the minor placings.

Harlow Gold's rider Regan Bayliss was also under the gun for angling in on Lindsay Park's filly, which caused significant interference that somehow didn't dump Brown from the saddle.

It detracted from a wonderful training performance from the Corstens team, having whisked their High Chaparral filly up the Hume Highway off a Benchmark 64 win at Moonee Valley.

Moody, who manages a string of horses for Rosemont Stud, part-owners of Montoya's Secret, had a hand in all three placegetters and was almost ruing the fact his best result, Nurse Kitchen, went under by a long head. "I help manage the first one, bred and own the second one and bought the third one," Moody said. "That has to be some sort of record, doesn't it?"

The messy finish detracted from the effort of a couple of unlikely group 1 heroes as Callow, who had a well-documented overnight stint in a Malaysian lock-up last year, ghosted underneath the field to muddy the Australian Oaks picture.

Callow said he hadn't had a drink since the Malaysian drama, but might have been reaching for one as chief steward Marc van Gestel turned the screws over his failure to stop riding his mount out in the final stages.

Asked whether he was conscious of the safety of his fellow riders, Callow said: "I shifted and I didn't [stop riding]. The reason being I didn't believe [Bowman on Foxplay] was that close to me. I don't doubt I shifted ground."

The softly spoken Leon Corstens deflected credit to his son Troy who actually talked him into sending Montoya's Secret to Sydney for the $500,000 race. "Main thanks has got to go to Troy," Leon said.

 "If it was left up to me I would have left her home in the box. I didn't think she'd handle the track. He was the instigator in this, saying, 'No, take her up there'. I leave the buying and selling to him and I just like training the horses. I think it's a good combination," he added.

And the combination isn't a bad one either with Callow, one of racing's most extroverted characters. "I haven't got it yet [prizemoney] and when you do get your bank statement it doesn't say G1 next to it, it just says $15K," he quipped. 

"She had to dig deep, but she just wandered that last bit, she still held on though, it was a good win," he said.