Class mare Alizee is set to start favourite in Saturday’s Memsie Stakes 2019 betting markets with the weight-for-age feature kicking off Group 1 racing in Melbourne this season.

Last Saturday the punters lost out when roughie hope Samadoubt won the first elite level in Sydney for the spring – the Group 1 $500,000 Winx Stakes (1400m).

This weekend they will be hoping for a better result with short odds on the Godolphin-raced Alizee – a potential runner to fill their slot in the $14 million The Everest (1400m) in October – to win the Group 1 $1 million New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m).

The official 2019 Memsie Stakes nominations were taken on Monday with a bumper 17 early entries for the early Cox Plate lead-up.

Alizee is pays $2.80 in pre-field betting on the Memsie Stakes after the daughter of Sepoy returned to winning form first-up in the Group 2 Missile Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill on August 10.

That was her first victory since her super-impressive Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m) triumph at the same track and distance as the Memsie back in late February.

Godolphin also have their grand campaigner Hartnell in the mix at $8, the nine-year-old coming off his fifth straight placing when running a first-up third in the P.B. Lawrence Stakes.

Hartnell chases his first win since the 2018 Epsom Handicap.

The reigning Memsie Stakes winner Humidor is back chasing successive wins in the event that he won 12 months ago ahead of three subsequent Group 1 thirds including behind Winx for her record-breaking fourth Cox Plate victory.

It is the third year Humidor lines-up in a Memsie Stakes field having also run eighth to Vega Magic in 2017 before his next-up win in the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) by over three lengths.

The now seven-year-old son of Teofilo is after his maiden first-up win and is one of three nominees for Ciaron Maher & David Eustace.

The stable could also be represented by Doomben Cup winning mare Kenedna coming off a first-up seventh in the Group 2 P.B. Lawrence Stakes (1400m) and impressive runner-up in that same lead-up race Cliff’s Edge.

Five-year-old Canford Cliffs entire Cliff’s Edge was given a peach of a ride by jockey Mark Zahra in the P.B. Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield a fortnight ago when taken to the front attempting an all-the-way upset.

He was far from disgraced holding on for second after being run down late by the hot favourite and top fancy to take out the Group 1 $5 million Ladbrokes Cox Plate this year, Mystic Journey.

The latest all-in Memsie Stakes odds at Ladbrokes.com.au have Cliff’s Edge as the $7 third pick to go one better on Saturday.

The other early single-figure hope in the markets is $6 second elect Scales Of Justice out to atone for his last start second as the beaten odds-on favourite in Adelaide’s Group 3 Spring Stakes (1200m).

Another standout Memsie Stakes nominee is the flying Begood Toya Mother who is favoured to win the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) at the same track and distance next month having won his past six straight starts.

The Memsie Stakes final field of acceptances and barriers will be announced on Wednesday morning followed by updated odds at Ladbrokes.com.au.

2019 Memsie Stakes Nominations

#	Form (Last 10)	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Ballot	Wgt.	Hcp. Rating
1	20x53233x3	HARTNELL (GB)	G	9	James Cummings	1	59kg	116
2	29x496870x	BLACK HEART BART	G	9	Lindsey Smith	2	59kg	109
3	84x817333x	HUMIDOR (NZ)	G	7	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	3	59kg	116
4	1x111306x1	ALIZEE	M	5	James Cummings	4	57kg	116
5	1x931911x7	KENEDNA	M	6	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	5	57kg	110
6	x32x6900x6	MATERIAL MAN	G	8	Pat Carey	6	59kg	107
7	2730x53x12	SCALES OF JUSTICE	G	7	Lindsey Smith	7	59kg	109
8	44130x08x7	OOHOOD	M	4	Tony McEvoy	8	56.5kg	103
9	x071516x32	CLIFF’S EDGE	H	5	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	9	59kg	107
10	50x11110x4	DESPATCH	G	5	Tony McEvoy	10	59kg	107
11	3002x7509x	ALOISIA (NZ)	M	5	Anthony Freedman	11	57kg	99
12	41292450×1	SO SI BON	G	6	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	12	59kg	104
13	3x432200x3	FUNDAMENTALIST	M	4	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	13	56.5kg	102
14	425x14941x	QAFILA	M	4	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	14	56.5kg	102
15	77027x90x7	VASSILATOR (NZ)	G	4	Colin Little	15	58.5kg	95
16	154x17x163	SESAR	H	4	Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes	16	58.5kg	100
17	48x11111x1	BEGOOD TOYA MOTHER	G	5	Daniel Bowman	17	59kg	94