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Outstanding fillies Encipher and Soho Historia should provide one of the highlights at Kilmore tonight when they clash in the second heat of the Always B Miki Vicbred Super Series.
The South Australian-bred-and-owned and Victorian-trained Encipher will start from barrier five as she attempts to stretch her winning sequence to five, a run which includes the Victoria Oaks and Breeders Crown Final when she defeated Soho Historia.
Soho Historia, the Emma Stewart stablemate of Encipher, has drawn gate six.
The Tasmanian Oaks winner Relentless Me will start from barrier two.
Talented New Zealand filly Amore Vita, the reigning Vicbred champion and third place-getter in the Breeders Crown and Victoria Oaks, has drawn awkwardly on the inside of the back row in the third heat.
Her stablemate Petillante (barrier three), runner-up in the Victoria Oaks, looms as the logical danger.
The first heat (race five) looks the most open of the four with Elegant, the last-start winner of the Southern Cross Final in Adelaide, drawn to advantage in barrier three. Other winning hopes include Miss Ex (barrier one) and the Stewart stablemates Jo And Jo (five), Talk Time (10) and Star Celebrity (11).
Beach Life, another filly from the Stewart barn, looks to have a mortgage on the final heat on the strength of placings to Encipher and Soho Historia in a heat and semi-final of the Breeders Crown.
Heza Son Of Agun, last year’s Vicbred champion as a two-year-old, will line-up in the fourth heat of the Ride High Vicbred Super Series for colts and geldings from barrier five. He will have to contend with Catch A Wave (barrier eight), the 2021 2YO Colt of the Year, who is resuming from 10 weeks on the sidelines.
All four heats of the colts and geldings’ series shape as being keenly contested affairs.
The opening heat features the Crown Silver winner Brutally Handsome (barrier one), Offyarocka Crocker (five) and Hot Deal (10), while the second heat looks a match race between the Southern Cross winner Cobber (barrier nine) and Don Lou (seven).
The third division boasts a host of chances, headed up by the Breeders Crown place-getter Interest Free (barrier one), The Graduate winner Khafaji (nine) and the Jason Grimson entry Lightning Dan (four).
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