Three of the four top fancies for this Saturday’s Stradbroke Handicap have suffered an early blow drawing double-digit gates for the $1 million Eagle Farm feature.

Peter Snowden’s classy mare Beaded was the pre-draw favourite following her gallant win in the Doomben 10,000 last start, but the price on the four-year-old is likely to blow out after she came up with barrier 17 for the $1 million Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m).

The Hawkes-trained Love Conquers All, coming off three elite level second placings including behind Beaded in the 10,000, will also face a tough test on Saturday drawn one inside the favourite in barrier 16.

Dual defending Stradbroke champion Black Piranha is the best draw of the early favourites, Con Karakatsanis’ rising eight-year-old to vie for an unprecedented third straight Stradbroke success from barrier three.

One of the big winners from the Stradbroke Handicap barrier draw was former favourite Sincero.

Stephen Farley’s promising three-year-old was at the top of the Stradbroke odds prior to last Saturday having won six races on the trot.

The pressure is now off Sincero and his connections after the Umatilla gelding was a flop in the Group 2 QTC Cup (1300m) on Oaks Day, the galloper unable to come within four lengths of winner Varenna Miss when finishing 11^th.

Sincero was on the border of making the Stradbroke field but was an eleventh hour starter following the withdrawal of Varenna Miss and Torio’s Quest .

Having gone from Stradbroke favourite to a horse that top jockey Glen Boss snubbed for the Straddie ride, Wyong horseman Farley is bullish over his chances of an upset on Saturday.

“We can’t leave anything in the tank,” Farley said.

After performing well in an early morning workout today wearing blinkers, Farley expects Sincero to thrive with the gear change and was over the moon with the horse’s barrier four draw and the predicted wet weather for Brisbane on Saturday.

“He travelled very good in the blinkers,” Farley said.

“We’re very happy.

“It’s good that the pressure’s off and we can just go there and run our race.”

After Boss opted to stay in Singapore and rejected the chance to ride Sincero in the Stradbroke, Farley has engaged the services of local lightweight Queensland hoop Jason Taylor.

“I think he’ll do the job, he knows the track up here,” Farley said of Taylor.

2011 AAMI Stradbroke Handicap Final Field & Barrier Draw

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	4568009X53	BLACK PIRANHA	Con Karakatsanis	Hugh Bowman	3	57kg
2	X05X504X86	ALL SILENT	Grahame Begg	Nash Rawiller	8	56kg
3	3800280X85	SNIPER’S BULLET	Tracey Bartley	Michael Rodd	22	56kg
4	104X252222	LOVE CONQUERS ALL	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	Chris Munce	16	54.5kg
5	43X2X132X1	BEADED	Peter Snowden	Kerrin McEvoy	17	54kg
6	16X356X144	BORDER REBEL	Sue Grills	Timothy Bell (a)	9	53.5kg
7	21X037X485	ALVERTA	Paul Messara	Glen Colless	23	53kg
8	2X64121330	BOLD GLANCE	Norm Hilton	Scott Seamer	21	53kg
9	X18X1727X0	RIGHTFULLY YOURS	Mick Price	Jim Byrne	15	53kg
10	X83390X451	WOORIM	Robert Heathcote	Corey Brown	18	53kg
11	4735412X0X	RAFFAELLO	Patrick F Ryan	Ms Lisa Cropp	5	52.5kg
12	1X1211X243	THANKGODYOU’REHERE	Patrick & Wayne Webster	Rod Quinn	11	52.5kg
13	122124X137	BUFFERING	Robert Heathcote	Glyn Schofield	10	52kg
14	X615X60X64	CULMINATE (NZ)	Darren Weir	Michael Walker	12	52kg
15	11228X2824	LISTEN SON	Tony Gollan	Ryan Wiggins	1	52kg
16	11X0X05903	STAR OF OCTAGONAL	Todd Howlett	Eddie Wilkinson	6	52kg
17	X11152X622	ZERO ROCK	Kelso Wood	Tim Clark	14	52kg
18	2X1111X110	SINCERO	Stephen Farley	Jason Taylor	4	50.5kg
19e	7113X42914	LADYS ANGEL	Joseph Pride	–	20	52kg
20e	10X34X6315	BEETHOG	Les Kelly	Joe Bowditch	13	52kg
21e	1305X010X7	DRENALIN	James Lyons	–	19	52kg
22e	945008X304	FIFTEEN CARAT	Howard Wilson	–	2	52kg
23e	35512X5173	MR UNFORGETTABLE	Kevin Moses	–	7	52kg