Having battled for top spot in betting after nomination stage earlier in the week, the Gai Waterhouse-trained Sweet Idea heads a capacity field of fillies and mares for the 2014 Myer Classic on Saturday.

The four-year-old daughter of Snitzel has been in flying form this season and on the weekend shoots for a deserving Group 1 win in the $500,000 Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington on Victoria Derby Day.

Drawn on the rails with barrier one in the bumper 16-starter, four-emergency Myer Classic field, Sweet Idea will be ridden by Tommy Berry who has ridden her for three of her four runs this time in.

She’s been tested in Group 1 company five times for three top three runs to date but an elite level victory has so far eluded her.

A dual Group 2 winner this season, Sweet Idea ran second to Dissident second-up in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) and fourth to Trust In A Gust in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) both at Caulfield in her two Group 1 runs of the spring leading into the Myer Classic.

Waterhouse, who has saddled up 11 Myer Classic hopes over the years for one win, has also accepted for two other mares this year with Diamond Drille (barrier three) and Forever Loved (barrier 13) drawn at opposite ends of the field.

Steven Arnold rides Diamond Drille, the Al Maher back up to a mile for the first time since her Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) victory at Randwick on April 19 and seeing Flemington for the first time.

In the wider barrier Forever Loved will be ridden by Tim Clark, the High Chaparral four-year-old won the Group 2 Blazer Stakes (1400m) here at Flemington two back before a distant 12^th in the Group 3 Ladies Day Vase (1600m) on October 15.

Sweet Idea’s main danger on the weekend meanwhile is drawn wider in barrier 11 with Brad Rawiller to ride the Darren Weir-trained May’s Dream.

May’s Dream is another previous Group 1 winner having taken out the Schweppes Oaks over 2000m in Adelaide back in late April.

Her last two runs this time in have also been strong when third in the Blazer Stakes and fourth in the Group 2 Tristarc Stakes (1400m) behind Sweet Idea on October 18.

Sydney’s best trainer Chris Waller meanwhile ran the Myer Classic quinella last year with Red Tracer and Catkins, his 2013 runner-up back looking to go one better 12 months later.

This year Catkins jumps from barrier eight with Damien Oliver replacing Hugh Bowman in the saddle.

Bowman had previously ridden the Dubawi grey for her three spring runs this season for a win first-up at Rosehill in the Group 3 Sheraco stakes (1200m), second as the beaten odds-on favourite behind Arabian Gold in the Group 3 Golden Pendant (1400m) also in Sydney and last start third in the Tristarc Stakes.

Also well fancied in the Myer Classic betting markets is sure to be Robert Smerdon’s Street Sense four-year-old Politeness in barrier 10 who is looking to improve on a Blazer Stakes fourth and Tristarc fifth when she steps up to the mile for just the second time.

David Hayes & Tom Dabernig have two livewire Myer Classic hopes this year saddling up Girl Guide and Star Fashion.

Craig Williams’ mount Girl Guide won the Group 3 How Now Stakes (1200m) in September before two second place finishes most recently in the Tristarc Stakes.

She will have to be at her best here however as she goes up to 1600m for the first time, runs at Flemington for the first time and gets the outside barrier.

Star Fashion shoots for her third straight win and has come up trumps with barrier two as the daughter of Street Cry looks to retain her unbeaten stats for the season.

Her last start was a mile win in the Group 3 Ladies Day Vase (1600m) at Caulfield and she has strong form up to 2000m having run second to May’s Dream in the Schweppes Oaks.

Other notable Myer Classic final acceptors include the Angst Stakes winner Neena Rock and the locally-trained Solicit coming off a Group 1 eighth in the Toorak Handicap.

Nigel Blackiston meanwhile opted not to accept for Suavito after she won the Group 3 Teiso Stakes (1600m) last weekend on Cox Plate Day.

See below for the full Myer Classic 2014 field, barriers and jockeys.

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2014 Myer Classic Final Field & Barrier Draw

Flemington Race 8 (4:30pm) – 01/11/2014

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Br.	Wgt.	Hcp. Rating
1	11729×1241	SWEET IDEA	Gai Waterhouse	Tommy Berry	1	57kg	111
2	1316x4x123	CATKINS	Chris Waller	Damien Oliver	8	57kg	110
3	1x58141x87	DIAMOND DRILLE	Gai Waterhouse	Steven Arnold	3	57kg	105
4	8x4131x734	MAY’S DREAM	Darren Weir	Brad Rawiller	11	57kg	101
5	414115×080	VIADANA (NZ)	Lance Noble	Joao Moreira	7	57kg	103
6	1107×68407	BONARIA	Pat Hyland	Michael Rodd	16	57kg	98
7	x11429x728	SOLICIT	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	Damian Lane	5	57kg	103
8	113x70x620	ENQUARE	Jason McLachlan	Craig Newitt	18	57kg	90
9	501718×592	ESTONIAN PRINCESS	Scott Aspery	Brenton Avdulla	19	57kg	92
10	21113×1122	GIRL GUIDE	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	Craig Williams	20	57kg	95
11	21034×4010	FOREVER LOVED (NZ)	Gai Waterhouse	Tim Clark	13	57kg	96
12	2350×49983	YOU’RE SO GOOD (NZ)	Nigel Blackiston	Chad Schofield	14	57kg	88
13	x194226x11	STAR FASHION	David Hayes & Tom Dabernig	Michael Walker	2	57kg	95
14	37x621x445	POLITENESS	Robert Smerdon	Nicholas Hall	10	57kg	93
15	15x3601x80	MYAMIRA	Rodney Northam	Robert Thompson	9	57kg	92
16	222110×341	NEENA ROCK	John Sargent	Tye Angland	6	57kg	95
17e	1x34310x96	GIRL IN FLIGHT	Robbie Griffiths	Kerrin McEvoy	17	57kg	89
18e	80x4400x54	ZONZA (NZ)	Roger James	Dwayne Dunn	12	57kg	98
19e	471084×112	QUAYSIDE	Peter G Moody	James McDonald	4	57kg	94
20e	x131124x51	MAHARA	Peter & Paul Snowden	Blake Shinn	15	57kg	87