Weight of numbers suggests Gai Waterhouse should win this year's Golden Slipper but the weight of money and expectation is with Melbourne visitor Samaready from the Mick Price stable.Samaready and Queensland's Doubtfilly are the only two of the 16 runners in Saturday's $3.5 million dash over 1200 metres trained outside of Sydney.Waterhouse has five runners, John O'Shea and Gerald Ryan three apiece with Peter Snowden fielding two.The non-acceptance of Black Caviar's half-brother All Too Hard has

Weight of numbers suggests Gai Waterhouse should win this year's Golden Slipper but the weight of money and expectation is with Melbourne visitor Samaready from the Mick Price stable.

Samaready and Queensland's Doubtfilly are the only two of the 16 runners in Saturday's $3.5 million dash over 1200 metres trained outside of Sydney.

Waterhouse has five runners, John O'Shea and Gerald Ryan three apiece with Peter Snowden fielding two.

The non-acceptance of Black Caviar's half-brother All Too Hard has robbed the race of a touch of its glamour but has put Samaready back into favouritism.

Trainer John Hawkes and owner Nathan Tinkler opted not to pay up with All Too Hard who will race a week later in the Sires' Produce Stakes.

Barrier 11 is close to where Price wanted Samaready to draw and any traffic problems are now those of jockey Craig Newitt.

"She should be able to stay out of trouble there," Price said.

"She's going to have six to eight horses in front of her and should be able to get into a nice position.

"My hopes were that she would draw anywhere between five and 12 so I'm pretty happy.:

Samaready is unbeaten in four starts with one of those wins the $1 million Group One Blue Diamond Stakes at her home track, Caulfield, in February.

She was at $2.40 on Tuesday with Pierro next best at $6.

A colt labelled by Waterhouse as the Slipper winner after his first start in October, Pierro drew barrier one.

His stablemates all fared pretty well with No Looking Back ($9.50, barrier three) Raceway ($13, barrier nine) Driefontein ($14, barrier eight) and Later Gator ($51, barrier 10).

Waterhouse refused to single out one of her runners over another.

"They are all there and they are all ready to go," she said.

"I think you should back the one you like."

The outside barrier was the first drawn, going to premier trainer Chris Waller's sole entrant Jade Marauder, an $18 chance.

"She came from last at her last start to win," an optimistic Waller said.

"We had been hoping she could be ridden midfield this time but that's unlikely now."

The barrier draw was also unkind to the O'Shea trio with Faustus in 13, Ashokan 14 and Shelford 15.

Faustus is now the 100-1 outsider in the field but jockey Jim Cassidy was undeterred.

"I'm the right man for the job," he said.

"I won't end up too far back from where I am and should be able to get a suck run with cover - hopefully.

"I'm just glad it's not a 20-horse field or John's horses would have drawn 18, 19 and 20."

Doubtfilly is a $61 underdog with her trainer and part-owner Stuart Kendrick living a dream.

Kendrick and his fellow owners stumped up the $150,000 late entry to run in the race which he described as a once in a lifetime experience.

Adding to Kendrick's excitement is the booking of champion jockey Damien Oliver.

Like other bookmakers, Waterhouse's son Tom has Samaready favourite to win but has levelled that by posting his mother at the head of the market to be the winning trainer.