LIKE many of sport’s unique manifestations, golden generations make precious little sense. 

For footy lovers, the 2001 draft remains definitive regarding these discussions. 

Those too young or removed to remember may not know that Luke Hodge, Luke Ball and Chris Judd were the first three players picked that year before each evolved into superstars of AFL football. 

Why one draft harbours that type of game-changing talent and another falls short of fulfilling it’s brief remains a mystery. 

But, for whatever reason, harness racing currently harbours two genuine golden generations. 

And both of them are female. 

Late last year much was made of Victoria’s juvenile pacing fillies as Ladies In Red took all before her until Tough Tilly struck back on New Year’s Eve. 

Both those fillies are utterly outstanding, a fact fortified by the deeds of Momentslikethese, who claimed the Queensland Oaks but couldn’t get near the best of her generation last term. 

On Saturday night, however, we also discovered, if any doubt remained, that this current crop of four-year-old trotting mares are totally out of this world. 

Last season, Pink Galahs led the charge. Her dominance of top-line three-year-olds was one thing, but her Bill Collins Sprint success over superstars like Dance Craze and Tornado Valley was something else again. 

Among her generational contemporaries were stablemate Aldebaran Tess and the massively boomed Im Ready Jet, both of whom stood tall in their weekend assignments staged at Kilmore. 

Before her win in the strongest rating 65 to 79 trot imaginable, Mattie Craven had already conceded that Aldebaran Tess may go past Pink Galahs as they move forward. 

And the powerful mare did little to dispel that theory with a brilliant sit-sprint success. 

That being said, the night really acted as a coming-out party for Im Ready Jet. 

Cautiously conservative by nature, trainer Anton Golino contravened all his own rules last year when rating Im Ready Jet above Dance Craze at the same age via one of Harness Racing Victoria’s digital previews. We now know why. 

Forced to sit parked against multiple Group 1-winning stablemate Always Ready with Majestuoso and Cover Of Darkness stalking her, Im Ready Jet simply owned the Maori’s Idol Free For All. 

The win was so breathtaking she now deserves top billing in this squaregaiting super draft, but the battles looming between the trio will be worth their weight in promotional gold. 

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EVERY metropolitan open class affair between now and October 9 will double as a Pryde's EasiFeed Victoria Cup audition. 

And on Saturday night at Kilmore, Bettor Be The Bomb got four chair turns with his pillar-to-post Hylands My Lightning Blue Free For All triumph. 

Trainer Basil Dooley talked tough about leading at speed with the veteran pacer through the week and his confidence was franked. 

Tango Tara was huge in defeat but, as a 93-rater, he must maintain his current rage to totally secure a Vic Cup berth. 

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