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Slipper leadups

02/03/2002

Speaking of the Golden Slipper, a couple of important leadups will take place at this Saturday’s Canterbury Guineas-G1 meeting.

Unbeaten Queensland filly Calaway Gal is tipped to take on the highly rated Chuckle in the STC Sweet Embrace Stakes-G3, while Choisir should take out the STC Skyline Stakes-G3 if he is a serious contender for Slipper glory.

It will be a veritable feast for racing fans on Saturday, with the programme at Canterbury featuring the Guineas-G1 (nominations include Athens, Carnegie Express, Leica Guv, Heritiere and Valkryian), Canterbury Stakes-G2, Canterbury Cup-G3 and four other stakes races — following the Futurity Stakes-G1 and St George Stakes-G2 meeting at Caulfield.

Nominations for the Futurity include Group One winners Barkada, Dash For Cash, Desert Sky, Flavour, Mr. Murphy and Miss Pennymoney, while the time-honoured St George could see a battle royal between Northerly and ‘Cups Queen’ Ethereal.

Make sure you check out the Form Focus on the Melbourne Racing Club Futurity Stakes-G1 in this issue.

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