A mid-field barrier has seen Dawn Passage installed as the favourite for the $2m 2019 Inglis Millennium (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Dawn Passage drew barrier seven in the final field of fifteen and will be ridden by Blake Shinn.

Bookies at Ladbrokes.com.au have Dawn Passage as the $3 favourite for the Inglis Millennium and the Dawn Approach colt holds a slight advantage over  Accession at $3.20 after the Chris Waller trained colt drew awkwardly at gate fourteen.

Dawn Approach created a huge impression with a stunning three and a quarter lengths debut win in a 1000m two year old Handicap at Randwick on Australia Day and co-trained Adrian Bott expects the colt to show some natural improvement at his second race start on the weekend.

“Physically in terms of fitness he was very forward for that first up run, but the improvement to come is from the natural race experience and stepping up to what I feel is more ideal race conditions being at the distance of the 1200m,” Bott said.

“He showed us plenty of potential at home in his trials and this is the race we really wanted to get him to so we only had one chance to qualify him and we really needed to be winning a fortnight ago or at least running second to get in the field.”

“We were confident with his ability to take him to that race.”

“We were probably a little bit taken by how much authority he won with but I guess the way the race panned out with quite a lot of speed and Blake was able to let the race unfold in front of him.”

“He really got him into the perfect position and that is was probably helped him flatter the win a little bit.”

“But it was a great win and he has come off that in great shape and stretching out to the 1200m is probably more to his liking.”

Waterhouse and Bott and will also saddle $15 chance Espaaniyah from barrier six with Tim Clark to ride.

Accession has been equally as impressive as Dawn Approach and is a winner of two of his three race starts and after scoring second up in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Randwick on December 15 proved superior again with a four and a quarter lengths win in the $125,000 Countdown to Golden Slipper Sprint (1100m) at Rosehill on January 19.

Hugh Bowman was aboard Accession for his initial win at Randwick and finds himself back on top after James McDonald rode him to victory at Rosehill.

Final field for the 2019 Inglis Millennium (2yo) (1200m)

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	211	ACCESSION	Chris Waller	Hugh Bowman	14	56.5kg
2	1	DAWN PASSAGE	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Blake Shinn	7	56.5kg
3	1	CASTELVECCHIO	Richard Litt	Joshua Parr	13	56.5kg
4	1x	COSMIC FORCE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Sam Clipperton	15	56.5kg
5	1	PANDANO	Paul Perry	Brenton Avdulla	3	56.5kg
6	4	SOAMI	David Pfieffer	Jay Ford	9	56.5kg
7	1×8	ESPAANIYAH	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	Tim Clark	6	54.5kg
8	22×6	BISCARA	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Brett Prebble	2	54.5kg
9	2243	BLAZING MISS	Mark Newnham	Tom Marquand	4	54.5kg
10	225	AVON RIVER	James Cummings	Glyn Schofield	12	54.5kg
11	38×4	SALOME	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Jason Collett	11	54.5kg
12	24	PRETTY BRAZEN	Tony McEvoy	Corey Brown	8	54.5kg
13	14	MY FIRE PHOENIX	John Sargent	Tommy Berry	5	54.5kg
14	242	LADY NATURALISTE	Matt Cumani	Jamie Kah	10	54.5kg
15	–	MY SWEET FISH	John Sargent	Andrew Adkins	1	54.5kg