Lindsay Park’s Blue Diamond winning filly Catchy will be after another Group 1 win over the boys this coming spring with the Caulfield Guineas 2017 target on the radar.

Blue Diamond winning filly Catchy could bypass the Thousand Guineas in favour of a run against the boys in the $2 million Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas 2017. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos.

The two-year-old daughter of Fastnet Rock enjoyed a four straight winning streak to kick off her career, including her Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) win in late February.

Things went amiss for her next-up however when she travelled to Sydney on March 18 and finished dead last, beaten some 26 lengths by the winning filly She Will Reign in the Group 1 Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m).

The David Hayes-led Lindsay Park stable however are confident the soon-to-be three-year-old can return to her best form back in Victoria over the spring racing season.

The team have already named the $2 million Group 1 Ladbrokes Caulfield Guineas (1600m) this October as a likely aim for the $1.1 million earner should she show early form that suggests she’ll be competitive against the colts and geldings.

Hayes has prepared two Caulfield Guineas winners in the past 30 years with Palace Reign (1992) and St. Covet (1994), but it has been a long time between drinks in the mile classic for the horseman who now trains in partnership with his son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig.

No filly has won the race in over three decades however as the majority of the fillies opt for a run against their own kind in the Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m), the million dollar race taking place on Caulfield Guineas Day in 2017.

“She’ll go in all the early lead-up races for fillies towards the Thousand Guineas but she did beat the colts in the Blue Diamond pretty well so if she’s in form she’ll also hold an entry for the Caulfield Guineas,” Hayes said of Catchy speaking to Racing Victoria this week.

“It’s worth double [in prize money] and she has beaten the colts pretty easily most of her life.”

Hayes has enjoyed a trio of Thousand Guineas wins in just over a decade with Miss Finland (2006), Irish Lights (2009) and most recently Stay With Me (2015).

Lindsay Park had an outstanding run of form with their juveniles over the autumn including fellow gun fillies Formality and Tulip who ran third in the Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper Stakes respectively.

They are both tipped to be the stable standouts in the 2017 Thousand Guineas field and are back in work at Euroa ahead of their spring returns.

“They’re at a stage that I call even time so they’ve probably done about a month’s work and they’re looking really good,” Hayes said.

“It’s very cold at Euroa at the moment but with these horses around it makes it a lot easier to get out of bed in the morning.”

Catchy is currently paying around $15 in pre-nomination Caulfield Guineas betting, markets led by the untapped Royal Symphony.

Futures Thousand Guineas odds meanwhile have Catchy as the early favourite followed by her aforementioned stablemates Tulip and Formality.

To back the Lindsay Park fillies over the spring at the best Group 1 racing odds head to Ladbrokes.com.au today.