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Jon Snow will be ridden by Stephen Baster in Saturday’s $A1 million Gr.1 New Zealand Bloodstock Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Last season’s Gr.1 Australian Derby winner will be the first of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman’s quartet of Melbourne spring carnival contenders to step out.
“Over 1400 metres in that class of field might be a bit sharp for him, but he travelled over well and galloped strongly under Baster this morning,” Forsman said.
Jon Snow was accompanied to Australia by fellow Group One winners Bonneval and Lizzie L’Amour, who will resume in the Gr.1 Dato Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday week.
The three-year-old Weather With You is likely to run at Sandown next week to open his Gr.1 VRC Derby campaign.
“At this stage he’ll run in a three-year-old 1400 metre maiden,” Forsman said.