It has been a heady week for connections of the Ciaron Maher-trained Vivy Air, who has backed up a game second to stablemate Gringotts in the Big Dance with a thrilling win in the $2 million Five Diamonds.

Collecting $600,000 for her second placing at Randwick on Tuesday, Vivy Air thrived on the quick turnaround to dive along the fence and capture Saturday’s 1800m Rosehill showpiece.

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The first prizemoney pool of $1.155 million took her earnings for the week to more than $1.7 million in a remarkable training feat.

“It’s a great result, a great prizemoney race and backing up from Tuesday into today, it’s not easy to do. She is very tough,” Maher’s assistant trainer Jo Gerard-Dubord said.

“She has been finding it hard to win every now a

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