Magnet and Shane for feature

MONEY MAGNET gets her turn this Saturday in the game of musical chairs played among overnight, open allowance and graded stakes runners, handed a drop in class to open allowance, facing nine rivals, of whom only one has ever won an open allowance event.

Therefore, apart from former sprint champion POKER STAR, who just returned off a three-month layup and placed fourth, down-in-class, behind PATRIARCH in overnight company, the only other winner of an open allowance race in the six-and-a-half furlong Saint Cecelia Cup is MONEY MAGNET.

Richard Azan's MONEY MAGNET (Shane Ellis to ride) not only has the distinction of being out-of-class, she is technically racing against rivals two classes lower than graded stakes where she has only been beaten by three horses in her last three races - SHE'S A MANEATER, CHACE THE GREAT and SIEMPRE BUENO.

GET-OUT-OF-JAILCONDITION

Having not beaten those horses and the likes of WILL IN CHARGE since landing the grade one Eileen Cliggott Memorial in February, MONEY MAGNET has benefited from the eight-month get-out-of-jail condition, which BIGDADDYKOOL similarly used to plunder the Nigel B Nunes Memorial open allowance two Wednesdays ago.

The only factor worth considering is MONEY MAGNET giving away weight all around, a maximum of 16lb. However, the pair worthy of giving her a run for her money - WITHOUT EXCEPTION and SARAH LEE - are too close in the weight to make up for the lack of class, sitting five and eight pounds, respectively, off the grade-one winning filly.

The last time MONEY MAGNET saw open allowance company, she carried 121lb, overcame interference in the stretch run and went on to win her follow-up race, two weeks later, beating CHACE THE GREAT in the Eileen Cliggott.

Though she has not won a race since, MONEY MAGNET has not been outside the top four runners in six subsequent starts against the best in the land, making her a full-fledged grade-one horse, who will put away this field regardless of 126lb.