Whobegotyou's dominant win in Saturday's Caulfield Guineas was just as good as Weekend Hussler's victory in the race 12 months ago.
That's the view of Victoria's chief handicapper Greg Carpenter.
There are several worthwhile comparisons between the Guineas victories of Weekend Hussler and Whobegotyou.
Both were emphatic winners after racing wide and covered the mile at Caulfield quicker than the open Group One gallopers in the Toorak Handicap.
Whobegotyou was more than half-a-second quicker than Alamosa, while Weekend Hussler was nearly a second faster than Divine Madonna last year.
Balancing that, Whobegotyou's winning margin of three-and-a-quarter lengths, drawing away, was greater than the two and three-quarter lengths Weekend Hussler had up his sleeve 12 months earlier.
Another factor favouring Whobegotyou, Carpenter said, was the strength of this year's Guineas as opposed to last year when the best of Sydney's three-year-olds could not run due to the EI crisis.
Carpenter was clearly impressed by Whobegotyou's win on Saturday.
"Getting back in the field, coming wide and having them covered on the corner and sprinting away, visually it was very impressive," he said.
"As I said the Guineas was strengthened further by the re-inclusion of the Sydney colts which we didn't have last year."
"I think it should be a very good renewal and he's won it in dominant fashion."
The great unknown, however, is whether Whobegotyou will be able to be as dominant as Weekend Hussler was in the second half of his three-year-old season.
Bred to stay, Whobegotyou is likely to chase autumn classics such as the Australian Guineas (1600m) and the AJC Derby (2400m) as opposed to sprints such as the Oakleigh Plate and the Newmarket Handicap, which Weekend Hussler won earlier this year.
"I think he'll get more distance," Carpenter said of Whobegotyou, who entered the Guineas after winning the Bill Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley by nearly four lengths.
"I don't want to necessarily compare every step of the way to Weekend Hussler but the way he won at Moonee Valley and then again today you certainly don't think 1600m is going to be the bottom of him that's for sure."