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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.

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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