David Druitt is hoping power in numbers can help him to MIA Breeders Plate success.
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The Brucedale horseman is the only trainer to have multiple runners in Leeton's prestigious feature.
He has two-year-old fillies Takidah and Floorless ready to race on Friday.
They are in separate heats but he rates Takidah the better of his chances.
"She's a lovely little sit-sprint Art Major filly," Druitt said.
"She's sharp, honest and very easy to get along with.
"It needs luck in the run, but with luck it can beat a good field but just needs that lovely, soft run."
Takidah has drawn four in the second of the heats after a second behind her stablemate in her first trial.
She followed that up with a fifth behind the older horses before Christmas.
Floorless won the trial at Coolamon in early December but was fifth against the older horses in her second trial.
Druitt expects she will be better for that hit out.
"She trialled really good and I gave it a week off and it got a bit fat on me," he said.
"It's very quiet and a real good do-er and finds it very easy to put on weight and hard to take it off, but I like it."
She has drawn gate two in the first heat.
Both are Australian Pacing Gold purchases, with Takidah the slightly more expensive purchase at $14,000.
Lining up in the lucrative series has always been the plan for Druitt.
"I bought two at the sales last year and bought them specifically as they looked like they would be very good early," he said.
"Floorless is out of a good mare in terms of early speed and the other mare is too.
"They get going to the races and being an Art Major I thought it would help even more."
Druitt is no stranger to lining up fillies in the race however they are far from a rarity in this year's addition.
Of the 12 entrants, eight are fillies, but it is the boys Druitt is most wary of.
"The Kew Legend of Dave Farrar's has won a couple of trials and is a lovely Bettors Delight colt will probably start favourite in his heat and is probably the one to beat in the final because as a rule the colts beat the fillies," Druitt said.
Druitt also heads to Leeton with Major Comment.
After dead heating in the group three Canola Cup at Eugowra in October, he resumed with a fifth in the Ladies Invitational Race at the start of the month.
Druitt expects he will be better for the effort.
"He probably needed the run the other day and we had to work him so he was very easy to get along with for the girls to drive him," he said.
"He will be a little bit fresher and a little bit sharper and should be spot on."
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