North England has given former top juvenile Farnan his first winner as a stallion.

Tim Clark has compared Golden Gift winner North England favourably to his sire Farnan and sees no reason the colt can't follow in the stallion's footsteps and be competitive in the Golden Slipper.

Farnan gave co-trainer Gai Waterhouse the seventh of her eight Slipper wins when successful in 2020 and on Saturday at Rosehill, North England became his first winner as a sire with a dogged Golden Gift (1100m) success.

North England was beaten less than half a length when third behind stablemates King Kirk and Tempestuous on debut in the Breeders' Plate and Clark said he had done a great job to peak again so soon.

"It's a short turnaround, he had a little bit of time out then had to come back in, so it's a really long prep for him but he has handled it really well," Clark said.

"That attribute is very much like his old man, Farnan, who I had a lot to do with. He is very laidback and has just got the best attitude.

"(Managing owner) Henry (Field) has been a great supporter of mine so it's good to get a big win for him."

The first prizemoney cheque of $580,000 all but guarantees North England a Golden Slipper start and Clark says that is a big plus heading into the autumn.

"The great thing about today and winning today is he's in the race," he said.

"They can pick their mark with him, have a good break now and come back and have one race in mind for him.

"He doesn't have to improve a lot to be right up there with the best of them in six months' time."

Watching the race from her NSW Southern Highlands property, Waterhouse said Field identified the Golden Gift as an ideal target for North England and her training partner Adrian Bott implemented a program to get him there.

"Henry wanted to target this race so Adrian worked out a plan to give the colt a short let-up and get him ready for the Golden Gift," Waterhouse said.

"It just goes to show that you can't beat Breeders' Plate form – it is sensational year after year.

"It also tells me that the Breeders Plate and the Gimcrack Stakes should be worth a lot more money. They are always strong two-year-old races and I think they should be worth as much as the Golden Gift."

She was also thrilled to deliver Farnan his first winner on the racetrack.

"Farnan was a champion two-year-old and it means a lot for our stable to produce his first winner, and a Group winner too," she said.

North England ($3.40 fav) led most of the way and fought off all challengers to defeat West Of Swindon ($9) by a half-neck with Extractor ($13) a nose away third.

Tyler Schiller was rapt with the effort of the runner-up, who was on debut and got back from a wide draw.

"He is a very good colt. He has made up a lot of ground today," Schiller said.

"Probably just the barrier draw was against him, but he has a lot of upside going up in trip. He's going to make a really good contender in the autumn."