Golden Slipper Field and Barrier Draw

Tom Walter - Tuesday March 20

Golden Slipper favourites Sunlight and Written By will start in adjacent barriers for the world's richest two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday.

Sunlight andWritten Bydrew barrier five and four respectively at the official draw on Tuesday morning.

Santos, the horse chasing a record-breaking seventhGolden Slipperfor Gai Waterhouse, is set to jump from the seventh alley.

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Those that weren't as fortunate includedPerformer, which selected gate 16, whileEstijaabalso faces a task after coming up with 17.

See the field and barrier draw for the $3.5 million Group I Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) below:

No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	WRITTEN BY	GRAHAME BEGG	Jordan Childs	4	56.5
2	SANTOS	GAI WATERHOUSE & ADRIAN BOTT	Tim Clark	7	56.5
3	AYLMERTON	JEAN DUBOIS	Tommy Berry	8	56.5
4	LONG LEAF	DAVID & B HAYES & T DABERNIG	Blake Shinn	19	56.5
5	PERFORMER	CHRIS WALLER	Hugh Bowman	16	56.5
6	EF TROOP	TONY GOLLAN	Jason Collett	2	56.5
7	PRAIRIE FIRE	MICK PRICE	Mark Zahra	6	56.5
8	SANDBAR	BRAD WIDDUP	Christian Reith	3	56.5
9	ENBIHAAR	DAVID & B HAYES & T DABERNIG	Stephen Baster	15	54.5
10	SUNLIGHT	TONY MCEVOY	Luke Currie	5	54.5
11	ESTIJAAB	MICHAEL, WAYNE & JOHN HAWKES	Brenton Avdulla	17	54.5
12	OOHOOD	TONY MCEVOY	Zac Purton	11	54.5
13	FIESTA	CHRIS WALLER	Kerrin McEvoy	20	54.5
14	SIZZLING BELLE	NICK OLIVE	Kathy O'Hara	1	54.5
15	SEABROOK	MICK PRICE	Damien Oliver	12	54.5
16	SECRET LADY	GARY PORTELLI	Ben Melham	13	54.5
17e	QAFILA	DAVID & B HAYES & T DABERNIG	Craig Williams	10	54.5
18e	GONGS	JAMES CUMMINGS	Tye Angland	14	54.5
19e	LEGEND OF CONDOR	GERALD RYAN	TBA	9	56.5
20e	SPIN	PETER & PAUL SNOWDEN	TBA	18	56.5

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