The flying favourite Tiz Invincible looks very hard to beat with the classy filly out to extend her winning streak to four-straight in Saturday’s Flight Stakes 2023 on Epsom Handicap Day.

Tiz Invincible

Tiz Invincible is a hard to beat favourite looking to finish the Princess Series off with a 2023 Flight Stakes win on Saturday. Photo: Steve Hart.

One of three elite levels on the Randwick race card this weekend the Group 1 $750,000 Flight Stakes (1600m) features a quality field of promising three-year-old fillies.

Flight Stakes betting at Ladbrokes has the in-form Ciaron Maher & David Eustace-trained Tiz Invincible on top at $2.50 despite the daughter of I Am Invincible drawing the outside alley.

She comes in from barrier 13 to 12 with the scratching of Autumn Angel (2) who instead takes on the boys under the lights at Moonee Valley on Friday night in the Group 2 Stutt Stakes (1600m).

Apprentice Zac Lloyd is riding in terrific fashion this season and continues associations with Tiz Invincible as the pressure gets turned up with a Group 1 ride on the weekend.

The filly has been flawless this prep enjoying a win fresh in the Listed The Rosebud before completing the Group 2 Furious Stakes – Tea Rose Stakes double.

The Tea Rose has been the superior form line for the Flight Stakes over the past decade or so and that is expected to play out again in the final leg of the Princess Series this spring.

Three of her rivals are also at single-figure Flight Stakes odds at time of publish including the $5.50 second elect Kimochi who continues rivalries after back-to-back seconds behind Tiz Invincible.

Gary Portelli’s perennial place-getter jumps from gate seven now with Jason Collett sticking with the daughter of Brave Smash.

She has run in the opening three legs of the series with a Silver Shadow third first-up before finishing runner-up in the Furious and Tea Rose.

The step-up to 1600m looks to suit and she is not without support to turn the tables here.

The third elect is the Peter Moody & Katherine Coleman-trained Flight Stakes market mover Mollynickers backed in from $9 to $7 to frank the Victorian form lines in Sydney on Saturday.

Jamie Kah partners the rails-drawn daughter of Pierro who kicked off her three-year-old campaign at Moonee Valley on September 9 with a close fourth to Charm Stone only 1.45 lengths beaten in the Listed Atlantic Jewel Stakes (1200m).

She takes a notable step-up in both class and distance here for her Group race debut and first Sydney assignment with plenty of pressure going up to a mile off a six-furlong run.

Tropical Squall rounds out the hopes under $10 for the win with the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained Prized Icon filly.

Co-trainer Waterhouse boasts an incredible Flight Stakes record having prepared 10 previous winners the latest of which was Never Been Kissed in 2021.

Tropical Squall enjoyed a successful debut at Canterbury back in June and won again on the Kensington track fresh by a big margin over 1400m.

Her perfect career start came to an end in the Tea Rose however when she ran two lengths back third from a wide gate, but she gets a chance to atone now with the experience of that run to bring her on.

Waterhouse & Bott also saddle-up Exceed And Excel filly Summer Loving at a more generous quote of $27 on the last start Tea Rose Stakes fifth place-getter.

The 2023 Darley Flight Stakes is set to run as Randwick Race 6 at 2:50pm (AEST) on the bumper 10-race Sydney card for Saturday.

2023 Flight Stakes Field & Barriers

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Probable Weight Penalty Hcp Rating
1 42×111 TIZ INVINCIBLE Ciaron Maher & David Eustace Zac Lloyd (a) 13 56kg 92
2 2x13x322 KIMOCHI Gary Portelli Jason Collett 8 56kg 84
3 1×13 TROPICAL SQUALL Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Adam Hyeronimus 6 56kg 80
4 14x1844x20 MISS JOELENE Kelly Schweida Ryan Maloney 7 56kg 78
5 2×1914 FRENCH ENDEAVOUR Matthew Smith Dylan Gibbons (a) 4 56kg 74
6 3330×2645 SUMMER LOVING Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Ms Rachel King 11 56kg
7 2×114 MOLLYNICKERS Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman Ms Jamie Kah 1 56kg 71
8 187×160 CAPTAIN AMELIA John O’Shea Blake Shinn 10 56kg 70
9 242806 PRIVATE LEGACY Gregory Hickman Tyler Schiller 5 56kg
10 221×67 TUTTA LA VITA Chris Waller Joao Moreira 3 56kg 69
11 2×13 AUTUMN ANGEL Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman Billy Egan 2 56kg 65
12 2×20 UNIQUE AMBITION (NZ) John Sargent James McDonald 12 56kg
13 5×04 HASTY HONEY Brad Widdup Craig Williams 9 56kg

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

 

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