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It’s advantage Our Princess Tiffany and Perfect Stride after the barriers have been drawn for Saturday night’s Group 1s for mares and four-year-olds.
Dean Braun’s brilliant ex-Kiwi has drawn gate one and looks well placed to break through the million-dollar mark with victory in the Alabar Bloodstock Ladyship Cup.
Victory would secure the five-year-old mare $57,000 in prize money, which would increase her career stakes to an extraordinary $1,000,262, but there will be no shortage of threats attempting to halt her advance.
Team McCarthy’s Bettor Enforce, who drew gate six, will be hellbent on breaking through after running second in this race last year to Belle Of Montana and second in October’s Benstud Queen of the Pacific to Speak No Evil.
HERE’S THE DRAW FOR THE GROUP 1 ALABAR BLOODSTOCK LADYSHIP CUP
1: Our Princess Tiffany (Dean Braun)
2: Mornings (emg) (Damien Burns)
3: Delightful Mia (Chris Svanosio)
4: Miss McGonagal (Stephen Clarke)
5: Six Elements (David Mioles)
6: Bettor Enforce (Belinda McCarthy)
7: Delightful Jazz (Ahmed Taiba)
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8: Jenden Strike (Chris Frisby)
9: The Pantheist (David Miles)
10: Rockasaki (Jack Laugher)
11: Pick Up Line (David Miles)
Perfect Stride looks well placed to add to his Cobram Cup success in the DNR Logistics 4YO Bonanza, which last year launched Lochinvar Art into an extraordinary season.
But the threats are many, not least of all Andy Gath’s prodigously talented Pacifico Dream, whose front line draw also ensures he’ll be a player throughout, and David Aiken’s Honolua Bay, who was so impressive in winning on Saturday.
The stakes couldn’t be higher, with the victor not only claiming the bulk of the $100,000 prize but a ticket to Sydney’s Chariots Of Fire.
DRAW FOR THE GROUP 1 DNR LOGISTICS 4YO BONANZA
1: Perfect Stride (Anthony Butt and Sonya Smith)
2: Kowalski Analysis (Matt Craven)
3: Major Meister (Adam Kelly)
4: Tinder Surprise (Kerryn Manning)
5: Pacifico Dream (Andy Gath)
6: Sonny Weaver (emg) (Amanda Turnbull)
7: Major Jodi (Glenn Douglas)
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8: Expensive Ego (Belinda McCarthy)
9: Honolua Bay (David Aiken)
10: Beat City (Kate Hargreaves)
11: Boots Electric (Anthony Butt and Sonya Smith)
