Forever Yin out to secure Vicbred finals hat-trick

After qualifying in both his two-year-old and three-year-old seasons, Narrandera reinsman Blake Jones hopes a kind draw will help him complete the treble.

Forever Yin will start out of barrier two.

"It's probably an ideal really," Jones said.

"It's not the weakest of semis but when you get to that stage you don't really get a weak one. It's not a bad semi and it's a perfect draw really as he's in the running line and we can hope for the best from there.

"Hopefully we can be on the back of one of the better ones and just get a cart for as long as we can."

Jones was at a loss to explain why the four-year-old galloped when he was finishing off well.

It looked to have cost him the chance to at least place at Ballarat last week.

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Instead he was relegated to sixth despite being fourth across the line.

"I'm not sure what he was thinking there," Jones said.

"He used to do it a bit when he was a bit younger but he hasn't done it for a long time. I'm not sure what to put it down to.

"He could sometimes go a little bit rough at the finish but he would normally give you a warning and you'd be able to hold him together but he gave no warning the other day and just jumped out of them."

However before the bad finish, Jones had been happy with how Forever Yin had run into the race.

"He was getting home good up until that point so I was happy with him," he said.

Forever Yin has drawn the best of the Riverina chances which features two-time defending champion Maajida, who was second in her heat, and two-year-old fillies heat winner Fiamma.

Both are bred and owned by the Johnson family at The Rock.