The Everest day fields and form online

Clinton Payne - Wednesday October 11

The Everest and the Sydney Stakes fields were announced on Tuesday but the remainder of the card has now been declared for Saturday's richest Randwick meeting of the year.

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A bumper crowd is expected for Randwick's big meeting on Saturday.

The $500,000 Group III Craven Plate (2000m), $500,000 ATC St Leger (2600m), $200,000 Anniversary Highway Benchmark 80 Handicap (1400m) and $125,000 Listed Reginald Allen Quality (1400m) will be run in addition to the $10 million The Everest (1200m) and $500,000 Listed Sydney Stakes (1200m).

The Everest is the eighth race on the card and will be run at 4.15pm.

The Craven Plate has attracted a final field of 12 plus an emergency and includes Group I winners Happy Clapper, Sense Of Occasion and He's Our Rokkii as well as Group I placegetters Star Exhibit, McCreery and Mackintosh.

The ATC ST Leger has 11 final acceptances including the likes of proven Group I performers Libran, Big Duke, Chocante, Who Shot Thebarman and Havana Cooler as well as the recent Group III Colin Stephen Quality winner Auvray.

The 10-race program starts at 12.05pm (AEST). The track was rated a good (4) at acceptance time while the rail will be in the six-metre position.

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast for Sydney for the rest of the week is:

Wednesday: Partly cloudy (40% chance of 1-2mm of rain). Max 25.
Thursday: Partly cloudy (60% chance of 1-2mm of rain). Max 27.
Friday: Partly cloudy (30% chance of 0-2mm of rain). Max 24.
Saturday: Partly cloudy (70% chance of 2-5mm of rain). Max 22.

Click here to start doing the form via Racenet's free formguide to Saturday's Randwick meeting.

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