The only horse ever to beat Sea The Stars, Driving Snow, returned from nine months on the sidelines to win the $200,000 Oliver Stakes at Indiana Downs on Tuesday night.

Now trained in the US by Darrin Miller, the horse will now run in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes at Arlington Park in August, and it is a timely reminder of the ability of Sea The Stars.

Darrin Miller said: "I was very pleased with that. When a horse has been off for as long as he had, you are never quite sure what will happen but he ran a fantastic race. The pace helped him, he put himself intothe race and he won easily enough. This was a starting point. I think he will improve."

Driving Snow beat Sea The Stars in a maiden that has worked out very strongly indeed, with Dante first and second, Black Bear Island and Freemantle both defeated in the same race.