Group 1 winner's Moment Of Change (Barely A Moment) and Bel Sprinter (Bel Esprit) travel west in top form while Godolphin will be hoping for a Group 1 on the resume to enhance the stud appeal of the top-class Sidestep (Exceed And Excel).
Then there's Robbie Griffiths' bonny mare Angelic Light who has been a revelation since returning to the track following a bowed a tendon.
Missing in action for sixteen months after finishing second to Platelet in the Group 1 Sangster Stakes at Morphettville in April 2013, Angelic Light finished a close-up third in the Listed Carlyon Stakes before springing a shock when downing Lankan Rupee in the Group II McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley on September 6.
The 5yo daughter of Holy Roman Emperor backed that up with a fourth, beaten less than a length in the Group 1 Moir Stakes won by Buffering from Lankan Rupee and Rebel Dane.
At her most recent start on October 24, Angelic Light was a short-head behind old foe Lankan Rupee in the Group 1Manikato Stakes.
A $30,000 Inglis Premier purchase for her trainer from the draft of Northern Lodge, Angelic Light has repaid the faith of her owners very handsomely.
She has banked $642,750 in her 15 start career that has yielded five wins and six places.
She will be bidding to become the first Australian Group 1 winner for her sire and trainer.
Bred by Northern Lodge, Angelic Light is the best of seven live foals from stakes-winning Fuji Kiseki (JPN) mare Flashed, who died in May 2012. She had not been deprived of a top suitor having being covered by Encosta de lago, Exceed And Excel, Rock Of Gibraltar,Flying Spur, Fastnet Rock and Sebring.
Angelic Light comes from the second of four crops left in Australia by Holy Roman Emperor, who looked to have all the credentials to succeed in the southern hemisphere.
The strongly built compact son of super sire Danehill is the 11th foal of the Secretariat mare L'On Vite, a sister to champion Medaille d'Or and Grade II winner D'Accord, and half-sister to champions L'Enjoleur (Buckpasser) and La Voyageuse (Tentam).
Her dam Fanfreluche (Northern Dancer) was a champion on the track and hugely influential at stud. Most notably she is the ancestress of champion Australian sires Flying Spur and Encosta de Lago.
Winner of the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes and Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and second behind Teofilo in the Group 1 National Stakes and Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes, Holy Roman Emperor never raced past his juvenile year.
The reason was not because of injury. Rather he was pressed in to stud duties at Coolmore after the champion George Washington proved almost infertile.
Standing his first southern hemisphere season in 2007 at a fee of $44,000, Holy Roman Emperor failed to return to Australia after covering his fourth book of mares in 2012 at a fee of $27,500.
His second crop has to date been far and away the most successful.
Besides Angelic Light it includes the Group 1 NZ One Thousand Guineas winner Rollout The Carpet, Group III ATC Craven Plate winner and Group 1 placed Honorius, last week's Group III Peters Stakes winner Bass Strait and Group III Cockram Stakes winner Octavia.
