Red Typhoon gets the chance to continue Robert Smerdon's good record in fillies' Classic races this season when she leads the Victorian charge in Saturday's Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm in Brisbane.The improving daughter of Hold That Tiger, who has won three of her 13 starts, has the opportunity to thrust her name alongside brilliant stablemate Mosheen as a Group 1 Oaks winner when she contests the $400,000 event.Red Typhoon will be having her first start since winning the Group 3 South Austral

Red Typhoon gets the chance to continue Robert Smerdon's good record in fillies' Classic races this season when she leads the Victorian charge in Saturday's Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm in Brisbane.

The improving daughter of Hold That Tiger, who has won three of her 13 starts, has the opportunity to thrust her name alongside brilliant stablemate Mosheen as a Group 1 Oaks winner when she contests the $400,000 event.

Red Typhoon will be having her first start since winning the Group 3 South Australian Fillies Classic (2500m) - a race formerly known as the South Australian Oaks - on 12 May when she strives to provide Smerdon and jockey Nash Rawiller their first Queensland Oaks.

She is considered Victoria's best Oaks chance with TAB Sportsbet, which rates Red Typhoon - who has drawn barrier 14 in the field of 18 plus five emergencies - a $16 chance in a market headed by Kiwi fillies Quintessential ($4.50) and Miss Artistic ($5).

Cranbourne trainer Mick Kent and Hall of Fame jockey Damien Oliver are others looking to break their Queensland Oaks duck and will combine with OTI-raced Crown Oaks fourth placegetter Vittoria ($26), who has drawn beautifully in barrier eight.

The Peter Moody-prepared Rock Hit ($41, barrier 15), a last-start Toowoomba winner, is the other Victorian guaranteed a run and while her trainer is a past winner of the race, having scored with Riva San in 2008, her jockey Luke Nolen is yet to taste Queensland Oaks success.

Victoria's representation could swell with scratchings with the second and third emergencies - Hula Lua ($34, Kent) and Crystalised ($41, Anthony Freedman) - trained out of the Garden State.

A number of Victorian-based riders have been snapped up by interstate trainers with Dwayne Dunn and Michael Walker to ride Chris Waller-trained duo Eliza Blues ($51, two) and Urban Rocker ($71, three), while Michael Rodd will partner Anagold ($151, 19) for former boss Bryan Guy.

Peter Mertens has the job aboard $10 chance Invest (22), who is prepared by Clarry Conners but spends a lot of time at his son Heath's Geelong base.

The Queensland Oaks is the highlight of a brilliant card that also includes five Group 2 races.

Victoria's strongest hand comes in the $200,000 Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m) with Darren Weir's Wealth Princess the $4.20 favourite and the Mike Moroney-trained Bonnie Mac occupying a place on the $5 third line.

Sophie's Spirit ($16), for Max Hinton, and Russell Cameron-trained $201 shot Ametsis are the other Garden Staters engaged.

The $350,000 Queensland Guineas (1400m) looks at the mercy of Stradbroke second favourite Mental, but Danny O'Brien's Shopaholic and Adamantium, the Peter Morgan-prepared Amah Rock and the Freedman-trained Our Smokin' Rock are among the $1.90 favourite's rivals.

The $200,000 Eagle Farm Cup (2200m), a traditional lead-up to the Brisbane Cup on 9 June, also has a $1.90 favourite with the Moody-prepared Lights Of Heaven expected to atone for narrow defeats in the Hollindale Stakes and Doomben Cup at her past two.

Victoria isn't represented in the other Group 2s on the program - the $175,000 QTC Cup (1300m) and the $250,000 Sires' Produce Stakes (1400m), but has the Morgan-trained Amah Rock , Weir's Miss Crissy and the John Sadler-prepared Neriani in the $80,000 Listed Spear Chief Handicap (1500m).

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