This Saturday is Blue Diamond Stakes Day at Caulfield, one of the biggest days of Group racing during the Melbourne Autumn Racing Carnival, and as part of the elite race line-up the $125,000 Group 3 Mannerism Stakes (1400m) will take place.

The headline event at the meeting is the highly-anticipated $1 million Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) where unbeaten colt Sepoy is the odds-on favourite to take out Victoria’s premier juveniles’ showdown.

Other features on the Caulfield race-card this Saturday, February 26 include the $500,000 Group 1 Futurity Stakes (1400m) where glamour mare More Joyous will start the favourite and the $400,000 Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) for the sprinters.

A set weights plus penalties race for mares aged four and over, the 2011 Mannerism Stakes has drawn 18 nominations.

Notable Mannerism Stakes entries this year include:

• Avienus (Mark Webb) – Has a Group win to her name but was dead last first-up at Flemington last Saturday

• Culminate (Darren Weir) – Resuming for the season after a short three-start spring that included a win in the Group 2 Tristarc Stakes (1600m) at Flemington

• Majestic Music (Leon Macdonald & Andrew Gluyas) – Al Maher mare trained in Perth coming off a lengthy five month spell

• Varenna Miss (Tony Noonan) – Well-bred Redoute’s Choice mare looks the pick of the field after running second to Beaded in the Group 3 Hyderabad Race Club Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on February 12

The 2011 Blue Diamond Stakes final field and barrier draw will be released tomorrow while the field of acceptors for the other Saturday features including the Mannerism Stakes are out on Wednesday February 23.

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2011 Mannerism Stakes Nominations

#	Horse	Trainer	Hcp. Rating
1	AVIENUS	Mark Webb	100
2	COUNTERPANE	Peter Snowden	80
3	CULMINATE (NZ)	Darren Weir	108
4	DANE JULIA (SAF)	Lee Freedman	101
5	IMPRESSIVE EAGLE	Danny O’Brien	100
6	MAJESTIC MUSIC	Leon Macdonald & Andrew Gluyas	101
7	MAYNEDA STRATEGY	Trent Pennuto	70
8	MONT FLEURI	Lee Freedman	87
9	MY EMOTION (NZ)	Michael Kent	89
10	PERFECT HOSTESS (NZ)	Jim Conlan	78
11	QUEEN OF CASTILLE	Alan Curtis	66
12	RED FLAIR	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	92
13	SIMPLY PUT	Dale Sutton	89
14	SO ANYWAY	John P Thompson	91
15	STATUS SYMBOL	Ken Keys	94
16	VARENNA MISS	Tony Noonan	93
17	WELL ROUNDED	Lee Freedman	96
18	WINDARRA PLACE	Terry & Karina O’Sullivan	82