Golden Slipper Field and Barrier Draw

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday March 14

The field and barrier draw for the $5million Golden Slipper at Rosehill on Saturday are out with race favourites Cylinder and Learning to Fly drawing next to each other in gates three and four and three first season sires represented in the world’s richest race for juvenile.

Cylinder has drawn gate three - image Steve Hart

Group I MRC Blue Diamond winner Little Brose is next to the top two in gate five, while last Saturday’s impressive Group III ATC Magic Night Stakes winner Steel City has drawn out in gate 15.

Three first season sires have runners this year with Justify (USA) the sire of undefeated filly Learning to Fly, Harry Angel (IRE) the sire of Blue Diamond place-getter Arkansaw Kid and Trapeze Artist represented by the talented maiden Facile .

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Champion sires Exceed and Excel, Snitzel and I Am Invincible all have multiple runners and Exceed and Excel is also sire of the dams of Arkansaw Kid and Exploring.

The field and barrier draw for the Golden Slipper Stakes is as foillows:

No – Horse (Sire) – Trainer – Jockey – Barrier – Weight
1 – LITTLE BROSE (Per Incanto USA)– Ben & JD Hayes – Michael Dee – 5 – 56.5kg
2 – BARBER (Exceed and Excel) – James Cummings – Nash Rawiller – 8 – 56.5kg
3 – ARKANSAW KID (Harry Angel (IRE)– Ben & JD Hayes – Jye McNeil – 13 – 56.5kg
4 – DON CORLEONE (Extreme Choice) – Peter & Paul Snowden – Hugh Bowman – 6 – 56.5kg
5 – CYLINDER (Exceed and Excel) – James Cummings – James McDonald – 3 – 56.5kg
6 – RED RESISTANCE (Russian Revolution) – Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – Brett Prebble – 17 – 56.5kg
7 – SHINZO (Snitzel) – Chris Waller – Ryan Moore – 1 – 56.5kg
8 – KING‘S GAMBIT (I Am Invincible) – Peter & Paul Snowden – Mark Zahra – 7 – 56.5kg
9 – EMPIRE OF JAPAN (Snitzel) – Peter & Paul Snowden – Sam Clipperton – 2 – 56.5kg
10 – LEARNING TO FLY (Justify (USA) – Annabel Neasham – Chad Schofield – 4 – 54.5kg
11 – PLATINUM JUBILEE (Zoustar) – Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott – Tim Clark – 11 – 54.5kg
12 – BLANC DE BLANC (I Am Invincible) – Michael Freedman – Damien Lane – 12 – 54.5kg
13 – EXPLORING (Brazen Beau)– James Cummings – Brenton Avdulla – 9 – 54.5kg
14 – LAZZAGO (Capitalist) – Chris Waller – Kerrin McEvoy – 10 – 54.5kg
15 – STEEL CITY (Merchant Navy) – Ciaron Maher & David Eustace – Regan Bayliss – 15 – 54.5kg
16 – FACILE (Trapeze Artist) – Gerald Ryan & Sterling Alexiou – Ryan Maloney – 14 – 54.5kg
17 emg – MILITARIZE (Dundeel)– Chris Waller – TBA – 16 – 56.5kg

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