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A full field of 18, plus two emergencies, have accepted for Saturday's $500,000 Group 1 Flinders Lane Rosehill Guineas with several of the leading contenders drawing wide.
The Chris Waller trained Said Com, a close second to Mosheen in the Group 1 Royal Randwick Guineas (1600m) at Randwick, has drawn barrier 20 and will start from barrier 18 if the emergencies Ethiopia and On Every Level do not start.
New Zealand Derby winner Silent Achiever has drawn barrier 17, Doctor Doom has barrier 16, Darci Be Good will jump from barrier 15 and another New Zealand entrant, Ocean Park, has barrier 11.
Randwick Guineas third placegetter Laser Hawk has fared better with barrier nine and fourth placegetter Ambidexter has barrier eight. Peter Snowden stablemates Galah and Induna have drawn well at two and three respectively.
The Hawkes trained two-year-old colt All Too Hard has drawn barrier eight in the field of 10 for the $175,000 Group 2 Bowermans Office Furniture Pago Pago Stakes (1200m).
All Too Hard, the impressive winner of the Group 2, VRC Sires' Produce Stakes over 1400m at Flemington, has firmed in TAB Sportsbet's market for the $3.5m Group 1 AAMI Golden Slipper (1200m).
After the victories of Samaready in the Group 2 Reisling Stakes and [/n]Pierro, in the Group 2 Todman Stakes, they were $2.50 and $5.50 in the market with All Too Hard $7.00. After acceptances on Wednesday morning All Too Hard had firmed into be equal second favourite at $6.50 with Pierro.
There are 14 fillies for the $175,000 Group 2 Mondial Pink Diamond Magic Night Stakes (1200m) with the winner having the last chance to gain a place in the Slipper field with All Too Hard already seventh in the latest order of entry.
Queensland filly Doubtfilly has drawn barrier one. Ichihara has barrier four while leading contenders drawn wide are Agueda in barrier 14, Valerio in barrier 10 and Kyria in barrier 11.
There are a total of 125 acceptances for the nine-race program. The rail is out 2m and the track is rated at acceptance time a Dead 4. Isolated showers are predicted through to Friday with Saturday forecast to be mostly sunny and 26c.
