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Shoepeg represents great value at her current near each way quote contesting a Class 1 Set Weights Maiden Plate at Wyong.
The filly comes in well under the Set Weights conditions of the Job Centre Class 1 and Maiden Plate at Wyong on Thursday.
She possesses the highest Benchmark rating of the field and would be meeting her rivals on substantially worse weight terms under handicap conditions.
In the fourth event at Wyong on Thursday, those rivals give her weight with the filly set to take some beating.
The daughter of Bernardini was a first up maiden winner at Newcastle and has since produced improvement with her two subsequent runs this campaign.
Both have been over the mile at this course where she has placed on both occasions.
Shoepeg now gets out to 2100m for the first time.
It looks a nice progression for the John O’Shea-trained filly and an example of good placement by the stable.
She has drawn favourably and Brenton Avdulla stays aboard who is yet to run out of the money on Shoepeg from two starts in partnership.
Her latest outing returned a Timeform rating of 80 and while there is room for improvement on that outing, the filly unlikely has to find any to be fighting out the finish in this line up.
On 50 day weight adjusted ratings, race favourite Irish Lord comes in well.
The son of Arena is down in the weights still being a maiden from his four starts.
Encouraging about the gelding though is the fact he has placed in each of his two starts which have been over distances greater than a mile.
His latest placing came over 2000m at Kembla Grange 19 days ago where he fell just short of a maiden victory.
The three-year-old is certainly knocking on the door and warrants plenty of consideration.
There is a noticeable disparity between the prices on offer for Shoepeg and Irish Lord as of Thursday morning with the former definitely appealing more as it stands.
Ascot Red is the next of the main chances.
The John Sargent-trained runner has improved with each run this campaign.
The three-year-old has been right in his element since getting out to 2000m and beyond, breaking his maiden at Kembla Grange two starts ago before running second over 2200m at Newcastle.
The son of Casino Prince has drawn favourably and Tim Clark jumps back aboard having partnered him to victory at Kembla Grange.
Tale Of Dreams has placed in her past two outings, the latest when third at Gosford over a mile.
The David Pfieffer-trained mare should be right at her peak fourth up and will be prominent throughout.
