The Peter and Paul Snowden trained Cosmic Force is the new favourite after the barrier draw for the 2019 Group 1 $3.5m Longines Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill on Saturday.

Cosmic Force drew barrier two in the capacity sixteen horse field plus three emergencies and was promoted to be the $5 favourite for the Golden Slipper at Ladbrokes.com.au

The Chris Waller trained Yes Yes Yes lost his spot at the top of the market order after drawing a horror gate and will jump from the extreme outside barrier and is on the fourth line of betting at $7.50.

The Godolphin owned pair of Tenley (barrier 6) at $5.50 and Microphone (barrier 1) at $6 make up the top four in the betting.

Cosmic Force is one of three runners for the Snowden Team who will also saddle up Anaheed from barrier seven and Catch Me from barrier twelve and also have the second emergency Rome who drew barrier four.

Melbourne based jockey Mark Zahra has picked up the plumb ride on Cosmic Force replacing James McDonald who was aboard the Deep Field colt when he annihilated the rest of the field in winning the Group 3 $175,000 Bowermans Office Furniture Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill last Saturday.

McDonald had already been booked to ride the James Cummings trained filly Tenley who he rode to victory in the Group 2 $300,000 Astus Australia Reisling Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on March 9.

Tim Clark finds himself back aboard Anaheed who is marked at $26 while $51 outsider Catch Me with Corey Brown in the saddle will race with the blinkers off in the Golden Slipper.

The Rosehill track is rated a heavy 9 on Tuesday morning and with more rain forecast for Sydney for the rest of the week, co-trainer Peter Snowden’s smile is widening after Cosmic Force skimmed through a very heavy track in recording a seven and a quarter lengths win in the Pago Pago last Saturday.

“The fact that he handled the wet conditions was such a big plus. It is definitely going to be wet on Saturday and it will suit some horses, not all horses,” Peter Snowden said.

Cosmic Force’s stablemate Anaheed is also a winner in on a wet track while all of Catch Me’s four starts have been on a good surface.

Snowden said that Cosmic Force has pulled up very well after his Pago Pago win and the colt is showing all the positive signs going into the Golden Slipper.

“This close to the race you need a horse that has really shown you improvement. The keenness and willingness in their work and the feed bin and a good attitude that keeps getting better,” Snowden said.

“As you know two year olds can come up quickly and go off even quicker.”

“So you need to have the right horse going the right way and this bloke has been doing that the last three weeks. He has continued to improve. He has always had a good attitude but with a bit of racing he is starting to learn a bit about his craft.”

“He is learning how to race, learning how to breathe and do things properly and it showed on Saturday what he is starting to come to hand with.”

Final field and barrier draw for 2019 Golden Slipper (1200m)

No	Last 10	Horse	Trainer	Jockey	Barrier	Weight
1	211×1	YES YES YES	Chris Waller	Blake Shinn	19	56.5kg
2	1211	MICROPHONE	James Cummings	Hugh Bowman	1	56.5kg
3	11×416	TIME TO REIGN	Gary Portelli	Jason Collett	9	56.5kg
4	113	FREE OF DEBT	Chris Bieg	Dwayne Dunn	10	56.5kg
5	1×221	COSMIC FORCE	Peter & Paul Snowden	Mark Zahra	2	56.5kg
6	1×123	DUBIOUS	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Michael Walker	16	56.5kg
7	5111	LYRE	Anthony Freedman	Luke Currie	13	54.5kg
8	2×1420	LANKAN STAR	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	Damien Oliver	3	54.5kg
9	1×11	TENLEY	James Cummings	James McDonald	6	54.5kg
10	1×1	PIN SEC	James Cummings	Tommy Berry	5	54.5kg
11	1×514	ANAHEED	Peter & Paul Snowden	Tim Clark	7	54.5kg
12	12×41	KIAMICHI	James Cummings	Damian Lane	17	54.5kg
13	1×100	CATCH ME	Peter & Paul Snowden	Corey Brown	12	54.5kg
14	1×13	VINCERE VOLARE	Tony Gollan	Sam Clipperton	11	54.5kg
15	522112	EXHILARATES	James Cummings	Kerrin McEvoy	18	54.5kg
16	16	LOVING GABY	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	Oisin Murphy	15	54.5kg
17e	2×314	BIVOUAC	James Cummings	Brad Rawiller	8	56.5kg
18e	4x2x2	ROME	Peter & Paul Snowden	–	4	56.5kg
19e	12	BELLEVUE HILL	Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott	–	14	56.5kg