THOUSAND GUINEAS
1600m, $500,000. Three-year-old fillies, set-weights, 1600m
HISTORY
* First run in 1946 when won by Sweet Chime
* Group One since 1979
NOTABLE WINNERS
* Chicquita (1949), Wenona Girl (1960), Beginia Belle (1967), Toltrice (1972), Toy Show (1975), Richfield Lady (1991), Northwood Plume (1994), Alinghi (2004), Miss Finland (2006), Atlantic Jewel (2011), Guelph (2013), Stay With Me (2015), Global Glamour (2016), Aloisia (2017)
TALKING POINTS
* Anna Rose and Heirloom dead-heated in 1963
* Six Flight Stakes winners have gone on to win, the latest Global Glamour in 2016. This year’s Flight Stakes winner Oohood is taking on the males in the Caulfield Guineas
* Favourite Smart Melody will be striving to become the first winner of the Thousand Guineas Prelude to go on and win the Guineas since Irish Lights in 2009
WHAT THE KEY PLAYERS ARE SAYING:
“I think her natural race pattern is to go forward. The only reason we’ve been stuck out wide or gone back is because we’ve drawn average. And today we’ve drawn well” – Thrillster’s co-trainer Troy Corstens
“She seemed to work well on Tuesday so I’m as confident as we can be without having seen her at the trip” – Smart Melody’s trainer Kris Lees
“She’s going to be strong late. It’s just whether the other filly has got that bit of brilliance to help her get the mile” – Kris Lees on El Dorado Dreaming
“The only chink in her armour is her last start in Sydney and she pulled up with the thumps. So if you take that out of the equation the rest of her form is really good” – Seabrook’s jockey Dwayne Dunn
