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Talented Brisbane two-year-old Greytfilly has joined the Gai Waterhouse stable for an autumn campaign.
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Formerly prepared by leading Queensland trainer Rob Heathcote, Greytfilly qualified for a start in last month's Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast after impressive lead-up form.
In her four starts before the Magic Millions the aptly named grey Ferocity filly won at Doomben and recorded three unlucky placings.
She finished ninth in the Magic Millions but her effort was excellent as she went out the back from the start and made up ground strongly over the last 200m to be beaten five lengths.
Waterhouse's stable manager Bruce Slade said Greytfilly will be set for the two-year-old triple crown at the Sydney autumn carnival.
“Our aim will be to give her a crack at the autumn,” Slade said.
“She's a filly that's done everything asked of her so far and we'll be looking to get her to the races in the not too distant future.”
Waterhouse will attempt to qualify Greytfilly for a start in the Golden Slipper Stakes (120m) on April 6 but her racing style indicates she may better suited over the longer trips in the Sires Produce Stakes (1400m) on April 13 and the Champagne Stakes (1600m) on April 27.
Meanwhile the Waterhouse-trained Marseille Roulette and Peter Snowden's impressive filly Guelph will test the respective merits of this season's Sydney and Melbourne two-year-old form when they race at Caulfield on Saturday.
They will start in the divisions of the Blue Diamond Prelude and will give a definitive guide to how the quality of Sydney two-year-old form stacks up against the Melbourne youngsters in the run up to the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes on February 23.
The Sydney form has already stood up well in Melbourne as Waterhouse's Warwick Farm winner Swing Vote performed well at her Melbourne debut when third behind Blue Diamond favourite Miracles Of Life at Caulfield on January 26.
Waterhouse has a higher opinion of Marseille Roulette, an impressive debut winner of the Inglis Classic at Rosehill on January 19 while Snowden rates Guelph, an a classy last start winner at Warwick Farm, at least the equal of any of two-year-old winners he has produced in Melbourne this season.
Marseille Roulette will be ridden by Craig Williams on Saturday when he lines up against Snowden's Kuroshio and Peter Moody's Blue Diamond Preview winner Dissident while Guelph may be opposed by her stablemate Montsegur in the fillies division.