Mick Burles’s Tasmanian galloper The Cleaner is top weight with the No. 1 saddlecloth in the Winter Championship Series Final 2014 at Flemington Racecourse this weekend.

One of a quartet of Listed finals on the Melbourne program on Saturday, the $150,000 Listed VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) has drawn a bumper final field of 16 acceptors plus four emergencies.

Set to carry 60kg with a wide barrier 16, possibly into gate 12, draw is Savoire Vivre six-year-old The Cleaner.

The evergreen galloper has been in top form in Melbourne this season, their first interstate campaign since a failed effort with Robert Smerdon this time last year.

They had a good summer campaign back home in the Apple Isle including a George Adams Plate win over the mile at Launceston in late February before a three month break.

It was onto Melbourne for a first-up second behind Limes in a heat of this series over 1400m on May 24, and then their three length Travis Harrison Cup (1600m) win at Moonee Valley on June 21.

They carried 58kg that day and so must handle more weight on Saturday, but are still in with a shot at the title.

There are then three other last start winners in this year’s Winter Championship Final field including Ciaron Maher’s super consistent Akavoroun in barrier nine (into seven).

The Lacryma Cristi four-year-old is yet to finish out of the top two winning five of their six starts to date.

The latest of those was over 1410m here a fortnight ago when beating Ringo in Heat 6 by three quarters of a length.

They carried 54kg that day and go up to 55.5kg for the final where they will look to continue their outstanding record and handle the distance having their first look at the mile.

The other last start winners are then the Leon Corstens-trained Heat 3 winning Neiello four-year-old Tried And Tired (barrier three) and Mick Price’s Fast And Free who won Heat 7 on July 3 at Cranbourne.

Price has also accepted for Danroad gelding Dany The Fox and Exceed And Excel four-year-old Eximius who ran third and fourth respectively behind their stablemate Fast And Free last time out.

They have drawn at opposite ends of the field however with 59kg second heaviest weighted in the race Dany The Fox in barrier two while Eximius, to be ridden by Daniel Moore, has barrier 18 (into 14).

Other gallopers coming off some nice lead-up form then include Mike Breslin’s Heat 6 runner-up to Akavoroun Ringo (barrier four), the Peter Moody-trained Heat 5 runner-up Soros (barrier 10) and Force Command (barrier 12) for Greg Eurell who ran fourth in that same leg.

See below for the full Winter Championship Series Final 2014 field, barriers, jockeys and weights.

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2014 Winter Championship Series Final Field & Barrier Draw

Flemington Race 6 (3:35pm) – 12/07/2014

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Br.	Wgt.	Hcp. Rating
1	3622251×21	THE CLEANER	Mick Burles	Anthony Darmanin	16	60kg	102
2	205×615343	DANY THE FOX (NZ)	Mick Price	Dean Yendall	2	59kg	100
3	53787×0048	LORD OF BRAZIL (NZ)	Darren Weir	Ben Melham	17	57.5kg	97
4	11×1121	AKAVOROUN	Ciaron Maher	Ms Michelle Payne	9	55.5kg	93
5	210×411281	TRIED AND TIRED	Leon Corstens	Nicholas Hall	3	55.5kg	93
6	2x02x74155	HENWOOD (NZ)	John Sadler	Glen Boss	11	55kg	92
7	609344×024	EXIMIUS	Mick Price	Daniel Moor	18	54.5kg	91
8	215×786517	LORD DURANTE	Simone Ferchie	Chris Symons	19	54.5kg	91
9	18x03x4101	FAST AND FREE	Mick Price	Ms Jackie Beriman (a)	6	54kg	90
10	8×62263308	GIG	Shawn Mathrick	Ms Katelyn Mallyon (a)	1	54kg	90
11	327×845357	SAID COM (NZ)	Chris Waller	James Winks	5	54kg	90
12	1x51295x12	RINGO (NZ)	Mike Breslin	Dwayne Dunn	4	54kg	89
13	812186×660	POST D’FRANCE (NZ)	Stephen Brown	Damian Lane	20	54kg	86
14	3680×17742	SOROS	Peter G Moody	Luke Nolen	10	54kg	84
15	112718×339	MURCIELAGA	Michael Moroney	Jake Noonan	14	54kg	78
16	339x00x194	FORCE COMMAND	Greg Eurell	Craig Newitt	12	54kg	75
17e	4x88100x00	CONSTANT FORCE	Bill & Symon Wilde	–	15	54.5kg	91
18e	x81350x240	BLACKIE (NZ)	Darren Weir	Brad Rawiller	13	59kg	100
19e	00572586×0	DURNFORD	Shea Eden	Ibrahim Gundogdu	8	54kg	86
20e	2x876x7117	EIGELSTEIN (GB)	Chris Waller	–	7	58kg	98