Top jockey Michael Rodd rates Hai Lil a Group One filly and the three-year-old's performance to win at Flemington on Saturday only strengthened that opinion.

Hai Lil lumped 60kg and had to switch course in the Bruce Gadsden Handicap (1200m) but still sprinted quickly wide out over the final 200m to score in a blanket finish.

"I think she's a Group One filly, I really do," Rodd said.

"I said that to them a couple of starts ago and then when she won first-up at Moonee Valley the other day, she just shouldn't have won from the position she was in."

Bendigo trainer Allen Browell was so keen for Rodd to be able to stick with the filly that he ran Hai Lil in Saturday's race, which he thought was unsuitable, just so the jockey could ride her before he went on holidays.

Hai Lil won't start again for three weeks until Rodd is back.

"Al said to me, `this is not the right race for her' but I said `good horses surprise you', and that's what she did," Rodd said.

Rodd believes the Myer Classic would be a suitable target.

"That would be her go, definitely," he said.

Hai Lil ($13) defeated North Atlantic Ice ($51) by a short head with a short half head to About Square ($26) third.

It was the daughter of Churchill Down's sixth win from 11 starts.