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THE Group One QUEENSLAND OAKS at EAGLE FARM is the highlight of racing around the country on SATURDAY and there has been a strong early move at odds for the Kiwi filly DOWAGER QUEEN.

Prepared by the new training partnership of Lee Freedman and Graeme Rogerson, Dowager Queen has firmed from $25 to $9 after a luckless 11th at her return to Australia in The Roses at Doomben when she had no room in the straight.

Dowager Queen would only need to reproduce her placings in the VRC Oaks and Wakeful in Melbourne during the spring. There is a prospect of a track downgrade with rain around in Brisbane and she is unbeaten on heavy tracks.

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THE e-mail box this week was a mixed bag ranging from an exchange of views between the former chairman of the Gold Coast Turf Club and his successor over suggestions that a greyhound complex should be built at Bundall. The new Racing Queensland Chairman Kevin Dixon is under fire over a grant to Toowoomba. There is a call for an overhaul of the Appeals System and changes to the Stewards’ Panel in Queensland; questions whether Capital Gains Tax will apply to Albion Park; SKY is again under attack; reports of a dust-up between two top trainers and why it gained no coverage and support for the Brisbane bookmakers.

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IN his widely-read column, ‘SILKS & SADDLES,’ published by the NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER, respected racing writer TERRY BUTTS tells of a $2.2 million track upgrade at Cairns that was misinterpreted.

He also reports on desperately needed finance for Townsville Turf Club likely to be delayed; uncertainty in Townsville for licensees;, the Mackay Amateurs; Grey Wehlow heading south and Shane Pawsey riding his first winner in the north.

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THERE are plenty of good judges prepared to risk SEA SIREN and BRAMBLES in the Stradbroke Handicap and Queensland Derby despite the ease of their wins at Doomben on Saturday.

Sea Siren is a clearcut $4.5 favorite for the $1 million Stradbroke on June 9 after winning the Group One Doomben 10,000 where she enjoyed the run of the race and had to pull out all stops to nail Buffering.

Brambles was set a true staying test in the Group Three Grand Prix and ran his rivals, headed by stablemate Vatuvei, off their legs. He has shortened to $3 favoritism for the Derby also to be run at Eagle Farm on June 9.

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THE GROUP ONE spotlight focuses firmly on Queensland tomorrow for the running of the DOOMBEN 10,000 where the Sydney filly SEA SIREN is a confidently backed early favorite.

SEA SIREN from the John O’Shea stable burst into contention for the big sprint races in the north with her comeback win in the BRC Sprint and she should strip even fitter for this tougher assignment.

O'Shea has told Radio Sport National host Shane Anderson this morning that the filly shouldn't be favorite and rates Buffering a more logical choice as the main fancy.

The wildcard in the $500,000 weight-for-age sprint is PAMPELONNE, a star of the future, stepping up from an effortless three-year-old win at Scone last weekend.

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THE e-mail box this week was a mixed bag ranging from a pot shot at Sydney jockey Nash Rawiller over his Doomben Cup frivolous protest claim to questions about the bandaging of a horse and whether there was any favored treatment to a top-name trainer; questions about the return of a turf track to Toowoomba; bookmakers firing shots at criticism and criticism of bookmakers over percentages on Brisbane races; a mixed response to the greyhound racing proposal before the Gold Coast Turf Club; more complaints about form reversals involving the big Sydney stables; and a blast for the Racing Victoria stewards over their ‘twitter’ inquiry involving trainer Danny O’Brien.

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IN his widely-read column, ‘SILKS & SADDLES,’ published by the NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER, respected racing writer TERRY BUTTS reports on the recent meetings between the new Racing Queensland Board and delegates from eight country associations.

Butts praises the Big Day Out at Home Hill last Saturday where his good mate Anthony Douglas was the star of the show off the track. He reports on the loss of yet another popular Mackay trainer and talks to Canberra jockey Shane Pawsey who is relocating to North Queensladn to escape the cold.

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NASH RAWILLER described the Doomben Cup protest by the powerful Peter Moody stable as ‘the most outlandish and frivolous’ he had seen yet it cost him a 10 meeting suspension.

It was no holding back when a war of words erupted in the stewards’ room after the Anthony Freedman-trained import Mawingo relegated Lights of Heaven and heavily-backed Manighar into the minor placings.

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MANIGHAR, the new staying star of the Australian turf, has been heavily-backed to continue his meteoric rise when he contests the Group One DOOMBEN CUP on SATURDAY.

The Peter Moody-trained import won three Group Ones on end before finishing a game second to MORE JOYOUS in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick. He has already been heavily backed for his Queensland debut firming to $2.5 favoritism.

Stablemate LIGHTS OF HEAVEN and the horse that beat her narrowly in the Hollindale Cup at the Gold Coast, SHEZ SINSATIONAL, are the two most favored in the early markets to test MANIGHAR.

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IMMEDIATE past Gold Coast Turf Club Chairman Andrew Eggleston has called on the GCTC Board to immediately put a stop to any idea that a Greyhound track could be built in the Equine Precinct.

The Club has gone through many battles over the last six years, the first being a move to relocate the Turf Club to Palm Meadows, a deal that would have seen the club go from being the Landlord to a tenant of the Bob Bentley-led Racing Queensland which would have been a financial disaster with the valuable asset of the GCTC land sold off. This proposal was thwarted by strong Memership opersition and Stakeholder support from the Gold Coast Racing faternity.

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