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Group One Blue Diamond Barrier Draw

Breednet - Tuesday February 18

The Blue Diamond Stakes barrier draw is done for the first two-year-old Group One of the season and connections of the favourites will be on good terms.

Palm Angel has drawn the rails in the Blue Diamond. Photo: Grant Courtney.

Deep Field gelding Field Of Play, winner of the Colts Prelude, drew perfectly in five with the fillies Prelude winner Palm Angel (Starspangledbanner) drawing the rails.

The well backed Cherish Me (Brazen Beau) is in gate six while Sydney hopeful The Playwright couldn’t have fared better with her gate three.

1 - FIELD OF PLAY (5) - Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young - Blake Shinn

2 - TYCOON STAR (15) -  Ben, Will & JD Hayes - Mark Zahra

3 - EXTRACTOR (8) - Michael Freedman - Ben Melham

4 - TENTYRIS (4) - Anthony & Sam Freedman - Damian Lane

5 - DEVIL NIGHT (2) - Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes - Michael Dee

6 - AUTUMN MYSTERY (16) - Rory Hunter - Patrick Moloney

7 - OLATUNDE (9) - Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman - Billy Egan

8 - THE PLAYWRIGHT (3) - Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott - Regan Bayliss

9 - PALM ANGEL (1) - Jason Warren - Ethan Brown

10 - ICARIAN DREAM (7) - Ciaron Maher - Thomas Stockdale

11 - MY GLADIOLA (11) - John McArdle - Jamie Mott

12 - MISS CELINEVOBIS (10) - Ben, Will & JD Hayes - Jye McNeil

13 - WILTSHIRE SQUARE (13) - Ciaron Maher - Harry Coffey

14 - CHERISH ME (6) - Ciaron Maher - Ms Jamie Melham

15 - TEMPTED (12) - James Cummings - Craig Williams

16 - EDEN ROSEVOBIS (14) - Jason Warren - Daniel Stackhouse

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