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The Australian Turf Club has a capacity field of 16, plus three emergencies, for the $175,000, Group 2, Villiers Stakes (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
The top-weights with 58kg of the Gai Waterhouse trained King Lionheart, and Ron Quinton trained Monton, have drawn contrasting barriers with King Lionheart, Nash Rawiller, inside with barrier two, while Monton, Hugh Bowman, is outside with barrier 18.
Others in the field to draw wide are the Chris Waller pair; Altered Boy (15), Alexander Of Hales (17); with Kontiki Park (16) and Viva Lass (19).
The Villiers Stakes is race six at 4.25pm.
The Mark Kavanagh trained Catapulted heads a field of nine for the $100,000 Listed Razor Sharp Quality (1200m) with top-weight of 59kg.
Catapulted, a six-year-old Catbird gelding, won the Group 2 QTC Cup over 1200m in June, 2010, and is also Group 3 and listed winner.
Kavanagh on Wednesday pointed to this win to show the ability of Catapulted to race the Sydney way of going, and he also worked Catapult and Villiers Stakes entrant Shadowfax (NZ) the Sydney way at Flemington on Wednesday morning.
Catapulted will be ridden by Glyn Schofield from the outside barrier nine, while News Alert and Rarefied share 57.5kg, and have barriers two and six respectively. The progressive Paul Perry trained Stratana has barrier eight.
The bonus race $250,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) has a field of 12 with impressive last start winner Flying Snitzel drawing barrier nine
The Villiers Stakes meeting has a total of 91 acceptances for the eight race programme beginning at 1.05pm, with the track rated a Slow 6 at acceptance time.
