Gary Portelli’s dual Group 1 winning filly She Will Reign is tipped as the sprinter to beat in Saturday’s inaugural The Everest 2017 field after coming up trumps with barrier two.

The official line-up for the world’s richest turf race is confirmed as are The Everest barriers for the $10 million sprint feature run over 1200m under weight-for-age conditions at Royal Randwick Racecourse on Saturday.

There are a dozen runners taking to the track in the Restricted feature, plus four emergencies awaiting a withdrawal to earn a chance at the $5.8 million prize money for The Everest winner.

At Tuesday morning’s The Everest barrier draw, conducted in front of the Sydney Harbour, the big winner and hot favourite in updated The Everest odds at Ladbrokes.com.au is She Will Reign in gate two.

Winner of the Group 1 $3.5 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) as a juvenile in the autumn, Manhattan Rain filly She Will Reign was back in elite level winning form first-up for her Melbourne debut.

Under the lights at The Valley on September 29 she took her career record to five wins from six starts with a narrow but impressive victory in the Group 1 A.J. Moir Stakes (1000m).

That combined with the favourable barrier has seen She Will Reign skyrocket to the top of The Everest betting at $4.60 as she prepares to race for Yu Long Investments.

“She will take the shortcut home [from that gate],” Portelli said on Tuesday morning.

“She has been set for this one race – we were lucky enough that when we won the Golden Slipper we had been invited to run in the race and we were able to have a long-range preparation.

“There was no pressure to have a qualifier and we have had a fantastic preparation.

“I just can’t believe the way that she won the other night.

“She is tough bugger and she has bounced back really quickly.”

A total of three fillies take on the older horses in The Everest field with Houtzen and Tulip enjoying mixed barrier luck drawing gates one and 11 respectively.

Both fillies are well down The Everest markets, Toby Edmonds’ last start Group 3 MVRC Champagne Stakes (1200m) winner Houtzen at $26 and the Lindsay Park-trained Golden Slipper placed Tulip a $51 roughie to score the upset.

Suffering a blow with the outside barrier (12 of 12) was the Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott-trained English.

Blake Shinn isn’t giving up hope however confirming he would ride the Group 1 winning daughter of Encosta De Lago quietly off the likely hot pace.

“We’ll ride her quietly from the gate and to her strengths,” he said.

“Hopefully they overdo it in front.”

English was impressive in her final The Everest lead-up on September 30, the five-year-old making up plenty of ground late to finish a neck second in the Group 2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at the same track and distance.

Following She Will Reign in the markets at $6 meanwhile are triple TJ Smith Stakes winner Chautauqua and the Lindsay Park-trained Vega Magic.

Hawkes Racing’s ‘Grey Flash’, Chautauqua drew better than mid-field in gate five and chases his first win since making history with his third Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes (1200m) at Randwick during the autumn.

Unplaced twice at Randwick this time in, in his typical fast-finishing style he has been impressive late in both races including the Premiere Stakes sixth and is tipped to be peaking for The Everest Day.

Jockey Brenton Avdulla continues his association on Chautauqua on Saturday, the $8.37 million earner racing for Greg Ingham.

Vega Magic meanwhile will have different race tactics engaged by jockey Craig Williams from a wider gate 10 draw, the flying five-year-old last seen winning the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on September 2 ahead of his Sydney race debut on the weekend.

Check out the complete 2017 The Everest field, barriers and jockeys below before heading to Ladbrokes.com.au for the latest odds on the new Sydney feature race.

2017 The Everest Final Field & Barrier Draw

Randwick Race 8 (4:15pm) – 14/10/2017

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight	Hcp. Rating
1	47x3231x76	CHAUTAUQUA	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Brenton Avdulla	5	58.5kg	122
2	x9171x1x11	VEGA MAGIC	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Craig Williams	10	58.5kg	115
3	81x2211x11	REDZEL	Peter & Paul Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	4	58.5kg	114
4	5x21x105x1	REDKIRK WARRIOR (GB)	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Regan Bayliss	3	58.5kg	112
5	640x9113x3	CLEARLY INNOCENT	Kris Lees	Hugh Bowman	6	58.5kg	111
6	1111×21411	DEPLOY	Gerald Ryan	Joshua Parr	7	58.5kg	109
7	23x6639x68	FELL SWOOP	Matthew Dale	Tye Angland	8	58.5kg	107
8	80x344x212	BRAVE SMASH (JPN)	Darren Weir	Jamie Spencer	9	58.5kg	102
9	0x17266x42	ENGLISH	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Blake Shinn	12	56.5kg	113
10	11x121x1	SHE WILL REIGN	Gary Portelli	Corey Brown	2	51kg	112
11	11115×31	HOUTZEN	Toby Edmonds	Jeff Lloyd	1	51kg	97
12	124135×24	TULIP	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Tim Clark	11	51kg	83
13e	1115x523x1	IN HER TIME	Benjamin Smith	TBA	–	56.5kg	111
14e	14163×641	TRAPEZE ARTIST	Gerald Ryan	TBA	–	53kg	102
15e	516x847x54	TAKEDOWN	Gary Moore	TBA	–	58.5kg	110
16e	5x63394x25	BALL OF MUSCLE	Joseph Pride	TBA	–	58.5kg	104