Promising three-year-old War Ends is likely to race at the Queensland winter carnival after breaking through for his first win at his third start at Sandown on Wednesday.

The Redoute's Choice colt is raced by a group of six including New Zealand-based syndicator Rob McAnulty and the colt's breeder Bob Scarborough.

He had finished runner-up to subsequent Sandown winner Amaethon in a Ballarat maiden (1000m) and to the smart Launay over 1200m at Caulfield, both last month.

Backed from $2 to start $1.75 favourite in the $75,000 High Caste Hcp (1400m) on Wednesday, a race transferred from the Flemington meeting last Saturday to make room for the Australian Cup and Australian Guineas, he put up an impressive performance.

After racing outside the leader Cross Street ($4.60), War Ends, ridden by Michael Rodd, was left two lengths behind when Cross Street kicked strongly at the top of the straight.

But he picked up that Jeune colt quickly and went on to score by 1-3/4 lengths from Cross Street with Tee Emar ($18) 2-3/4 lengths away third.

"We've always known he's one of our better three-year-olds. We might give him a bit of a rest now and he might turn up at the Queensland carnival," Kavanagh said.

"The penny hasn't quite dropped with him. He's still a work in progress, the other horse dropped him off but he knuckled down and chased and got the job done.

"He's an interesting horse. He's got a fair way to go but once he learns to put it all together he'll be a pretty serious horse I reckon."

Embattled jockey Danny Nikolic, fined $5,000 for refusing a stewards' directive to hand over his mobile phone to them for the purposes of an inquiry, was again on the receiving end of a stewards' decision going against him at the Lakeside meeting.

Nikolic was first past the post by a short head on the Michael Templeton-trained Family Bliss ($3.60) in the Lavendo Hcp (3100m).

However Luke Currie, rider of the Robbie Griffiths-trained Mr Riggs ($2.15 fav), fired in a protest alleging interference in the straight.

Racing Victoria stewards, chaired by Mark Hill, ruled that Family Bliss interfered with the runner-up when he shifted out in the straight and that it had cost Mr Riggs the race so the objection was upheld.

Nikolic was to meet with stewards - now in possession of his phone contacts after the jockey handed over his phone to them on Tuesday - after the Sandown meeting to continue an inquiry into 10 of his losing rides which were laid to lose by professional punter Neville Clements.