OVERVIEW: Group 1 Victoria Derby winner DYNAMITEDAN (12) fronts up here following his outstanding success in the time-honoured classic at Melton on October 17 and he’s awfully hard to oppose in this 70-79 content. The Emma Stewart-trained pacer turned in a great heat run before coming from well off the pace and scoring in the final at long odds. He’s only early into his preparation and the 2240m trip gives him time to work into the race from wide on the back row. OUR VINCENT CAN GOGH (4) looks a legitimate threat based off his recent form, which includes a really good second to potential superstar Bettor Beach last weekend in a personal last half of 53.74, which was actually quicker than that of the winner! Before that, he ran well in a race six of these contested when fourth to KOMODO (8), who had the dream cart up on stablemate PICK UP ELVIS (10). The latter might be able to turn the tables from what is perhaps a better draw and race shape here. Plenty of others can figure, headlined by THE NAKED ART (6), who returns from a two-start Tasmanian campaign where she was runner-up in both starts at Launceston and Hobart. Her prior form in Victoria was very good before the trek across Bass Strait.

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