The two-year-old colts and fillies face the daunting straight-six course at Flemington in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes.

Meanwhile, the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate is currently run on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival – but not many 2yo’s have completed the double.

Previous winners of the Maribyrnong Trial Stakes include Sepoy, Kuroshio, Sports and Danzero.

1. Akkadian (c) (NICCONI x Garden Of Eden [BLACKFRIARS])

*Sold to Matt Cumani/Boomer Bloodstock for $110,000 at the MM Sale – from the draft of Aquis Farm

*Was also sold as a weanling through the MM for $100,000 to Aquis Farm from Grandview Peak Crossing

*Dam is a 1/2 sister to 10x WA stakes winner GRAND NIRVANA

*Dam has produced 3 named foals, 2 to race for 1 winner – she has a yearling filly by WHITTINGTON and was covered by NICCONI again last season

*2nd dam PARADISE PARK won G3 WATC Sires’ Produce Stakes and LR Perth Stakes

*Family of HARTLEY’S DREAM and LA SIRENUSE

(Akkadian as a yearling)

2. Bold Type (c) (WRITTEN TYCOON x Legcut [DANERICH])

*Raced by breeders

*First foal for dam – who has a yearling colt by FIGHTING SUN and recently foaled a filly by KUROSHIO (13/08/17)

* Dam was a 6x winner from 955m – 1200m

*Family of STRATOFORTRESS and RIVER BOBO

3. Grand Challenge (c) (NOT A SINGLE DOUBT x Lago Joy [ENCOSTA DE LAGO])

*Sold at the Inglis Classic Sale for $220,000 offered by Middlebrook Valley Lodge – bought by Sun Bloodstock

*Dam has had 5 foals to date, including a colt born 3/09/17 by PRESS STATEMENT, there’s also a yearling filly by SEBRING

*Dam is a 1/2 to LR placed My Sweet Cookie

*2nd dam Miss Heath (OCTAGONAL) is a 1/2 to MISS MINDEN, G1 QLD Oaks winner MISS DANEHILL, POINT MADE and multiple stakes winner PENTASTIC, who also ran 4th to MAKYBE DIVA in the 2003 Melbourne Cup

*Also the family of PRIMUS and READYTOGORIGHTNOW

(Grand Challenge as a yearling)

4. Ranier (c) (LONHRO x KANZAN [COMMANDS])

*The name “Ranier” – is a cultivar of cherry – developed in 1952 and considered a premium type of cherry – while dam “KANZAN” is likely named after a flowering cherry cultivar – 2nd dam is “Cherry Lodge”, 3rd dam Cherry Garden

*KANZAN won the G3 BRC Glenlogan Park Stakes, plus two LR races

*2nd dam Cherry Lodge is a 1/2 sister to LIBERTY ROSE (dam of GRAND JARDIN)

*Dam has a yearling filly by MEDAGLIA D’ORO and was covered by TEOFILO last season

*Further down the page, the family includes INFERENCE, FREEDOM FIELDS, LADY LIBERTY

5. Sanglier (c) (ALBRECHT x More Haste [Brief Truce])

*Part of ALBRECHT’S first crop to race

*1/2 brother to PROVERB – G3 winner of Gunsynd Classic in QLD and LR Dulcify Hcp

*Dam was G2 placed in Emancipation Stakes – she’s a 1/2 sister to DEXTROUS (dam of SKILLED, AMBIDEXTER, SIDESTEP)

*Last foal for dam, who was retired from the breeding barn in 2016 – she’s produced 9 named foals, 6 to race so far for 5 winners

*2nd dam Many Hands was G3 placed as well, she’s a 1/2 to ACCUMULATION 

6. Scottish Rogue (c) (ROTHESAY x Ten Eighty [VOLKSRAAD (GB)])

*1/2 bro SHOBOARD winner LR Keith Mackay

*Sold for just $45,000 at the Inglis Classic Sale to First Light Racing/McEvoy Mitchell Racing/Paull Willets Bloodstock, from the draft of Glenlogan Park

*Dam is an unraced full sister to Joint Champion 3yo Filly Sprinter in NZ 2000/01 STAR SATIRE

*STAR SATIRE is the dam of ZARZUELA (dam of SERIOUS SATIRE) and SATIN SHOES – whose daughter SATIN SLIPPER won the LR Gimcrack last Saturday

*Family of SOUBRETTES, SILVER WRAITH, SILVER NYMPH, SILVERELLO, RAY’S HOPE, STAR DEFENCE

(Scottish Rogue as a yearling)

7. Crossing The Abbey (f) (HELMET x Music in the Park [BEL ESPRIT])

*Raced by her breeders

*Name could be an ode to The Beatles famous album cover – where they were photographed on the zebra crossing

*HELMET was the leading first season sire in Ireland – he’s sired 7 stakes winners to date including G1 winner THUNDER SNOW – plus ARCHIVES and LIMESTONE in Australia

*Dam won twice including once as a 2yo – she’s a full sister to LR Blue Sapphire winner CITY OF SONG – who won twice as a 2yo

*Dam died in 2016 – Crossing The Abbey was her last foal from 3 in total

*2nd dam SONGS OF VIENNA won the LR VRC Straight Six and is a 3/4 sister to HADABECLORKA

8. Lady Bithiah (f) (MOSHE x Flew [ANABAA (USA)])

*Raced by her breeders

*Dam Flew was bred by Woodlands – and is a 1/2 sister to SA LR winner QUARTERMAN

*Dam won twice as a 2yo at 1000m – has had 10 named foals – 7 to race – 4 winners

*Dam was retired from breeding in April this year – her last foal is now a yearling colt by KEEP THE FAITH

*2nd dam is the stakes placed Graphics

*Sire MOSHE is full brother to BLACK CAVIAR

*MOSHE has sired one stakes winner to date – MOSHKI, as well as stakes placed El Venetian and Feng Chu

9. Nomothaj (f) (SNITZEL x REAL STOLLE [ELUSIVE QUALITY (USA)])

*Shadwell Australasia bought this filly for $420,000 at the MM Sale from the Newgate Farm draft  

*Dam won the G3 Maribyrnong Plate – she has had four foals including a yearling colt by EXCEED AND EXCEL and a filly foal by SNITZEL on 28/08/17

*2nd dam Lemon Ruski is a 1/2 sister to LR winner and multiple Group placed CHATTANOOGA

*Family of TINDAL, further down BERBERIA

(Nomothaj as a yearling)

10. Special Design (f) (MASTER OF DESIGN x Our Final Snip [BECKETT (IRE)])

*Bred by Widden Stud

*Dam has had three foals, including a yearling colt by EQUIANO, she’s in foal to SQUAMOSA

*Special Design will be Our Final Snip’s first foal to race

11. Sunlight (f) (ZOUSTAR x SOLAR CHARGED [CHARGE FORWARD])

*First runner for Zoustar!

*Bought for $300,000 from the Widden Stud draft by Aquis/McEvoy Mitchell Racing/Blue Sky Bloodstock at the MM Sale

*1/2 sister G3 Kindergarden Stakes winner Sheikha (SEBRING)

*Dam won a G3 Kindergarten Stakes and G3 T’Bred Club Stakes – was also multiple Group placed

*Dam is a 1/2 LR Tas Oaks winner CAUSEWAY QUEEN

*SOLAR CHARGED has had 5 foals to date and is in foal to SEBRING, after producing a full sister to Sunlight last season

*3rd dam ARETHA was a LR winner and dam of SIR LINFORD

(Sunlight as a yearling)