Empire Rose Stakes Final Field & Barrier Draw

Trent Orwin in Empire Rose Stakes 28 Oct 2020

Mystic Journey has drawn well in barrier five (PA Images)

The final field and barrier draw have been released for Saturday’s Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington with a field of 14 set to run.

Classy five-year-old mare Mystic Journey has drawn barrier five for the TAB Empire Rose Stakes. After a pair of disappointing performances, the Adam Trinder-trained mare returned to form with victory in the Group 2 Stocks Stakes (1600m) at The Valley.

Three-year-old filly Odeum captured the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) last start and will carry 49kg on the weekend. Jye McNeil picks up the ride at the light weight and Odeum has drawn gate seven.

Fresh off winning the Group 1 Cox Plate (2040m) aboard Sir Dragonet, Glen Boss will ride Nettoyer who finished ninth in the Cox Plate, beaten 9.4 lengths. Two starts ago she was second in the Group 3 Craven Plate (2000m). Nettoyer has drawn barrier eight.

2020 Empire Rose Stakes Barrier Draw and Final Field:

No.	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	MYSTIC JOURNEY	Adam Trinder	Kerrin McEvoy	5	57kg
2	NETTOYER	Wendy Roche	Glen Boss	8	57kg
3	MADAM ROUGE	Chris Waller	James McDonald	12	57kg
4	PRETTY BRAZEN	Tony & Calvin McEvoy	Luke Currie	6	56.5kg
5	VANNA GIRL	Toby & Trent Edmonds	Hugh Bowman	1	56.5kg
6	SHOUT THE BAR	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Damien Oliver	11	56.5kg
7	ASIAGO	James Cummings	Mark Zahra	2	56.5kg
8	MISSILE MANTRA	Peter & Paul Snowden	Damian Lane	9	56.5kg
9	FELICIA	Dean Binaisse	Craig Williams	10	56.5kg
10	SHE SHAO FLY	Kevin Corstens	Jamie Kah	3	56.5kg
11	CHAILLOT	Archie Alexander	Declan Bates	4	56.5kg
12	ODEUM	Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr)	Jye McNeil	7	49kg
13	CHICA FUERTE	Anthony & Sam Freedman	Dean Holland	13	49kg
14	FORBIDDEN LOVE	Richard & Michael Freedman	Dean Yendall	14	49kg