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Thousand Guineas Field and Draw

Tara Madgwick - Tuesday October 9

A field of 16 three-year-old fillies has accepted to contest Saturday's Group I Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield and the all-important barrier draw has been conducted with race favourite Smart Melody drawing ideally in two.

She is one of two Kris Lees-trained runners in the $500,000 race along with Group I winner El Dorado Dreaming while Chris Waller will run Fiesta, who won the overall Darley Princess Series in Sydney. All three interstate raiders drew favourably.

Amphitrite and Krone will both back up after the fillies ran the quinella in last Saturday's Edward Manifold Stakes but luck wasn't on their side in the draw for barriers.

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Below is the final field and barrier draw for the 2018 Thousand Guineas.

No.

Runner

Trainer

Jockey

Barrier

Weight

1

El Dorado Dreaming

Kris Lees

Damian Lane

7

55.5kg

2

Fiesta

Chris Waller

Michael Walker

3

55.5kg

3

Seabrook

Mick Price

Dwayne Dunn

10

55.5kg

4

Thrillster

Leon & Troy Corstens

Noel Callow

8

55.5kg

5

Smart Melody

Kris Lees

James McDonald

2

55.5kg

6

Fundamentalist

Hayes / Dabernig

Luke Nolen

4

55.5kg

7

Amphitrite

Darren Weir

Craig Williams

16

55.5kg

8

Krone

Darren Weir

Mark Zahra

14

55.5kg

9

Aristocratic Miss

Tony McEvoy

Luke Currie

11

55.5kg

10

Qafila

Hayes / Dabernig

Regan Bayliss

1

55.5kg

11

Anjana

Darren Weir

Ben Allen

13

55.5kg

12

Tahitian Dancer

Shane Nichols

Clayton Douglas

6

55.5kg

13

Peaceful

Baker & Forsman

John Allen

12

55.5kg

14

Music Bay

Phillip Stokes

TBA

5

55.5kg

15

Mirette

Archie Alexander

Jordan Childs

15

55.5kg

16

Ducale

Paul Perry

TBA

9

55.5kg
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