Top filly faces tough test in $200,000 Nutrien Classic Final

29 May 2026

MICHAEL DUMESNY |

One of the state’s best credentialled two-year-old fillies, Shes A Delaney has been given a huge hurdle to jump in this Saturday night’s $200,000 Woodlands Stud Nutrien Classic Sales Final at Riverina Paceway.

After the prelude was run last Friday, the Anthony Frisby trained and driven Bathurst youngster looked set to dominate the final but has drawn the widest barrier (gate eight) in the rich feature, making her task much harder.

A winner of four of her seven race starts, Shes A Delaney was most impressive in her win at Wagga last week when defeating odds-on favourite Kahula by eight metres, returning a slick 1:54.1 mile rating in the process.

Despite the challenging barrier that she has to deal with, Frisby remains confident that his filly can overcome the adversity, believing she has the class and is primed and ready to go.

“She is a lovely filly, and has some great attributes,” said Frisby.

“Obviously there are a few places you do not want to draw in big finals like this, and the widest on the front row is one of them, but she is pretty classy and I remain optimistic that provided a few things go in her favour, she can overcome it.

“This race has been one of our targets for her this season.

“It is a rich series and is gaining good momentum to becoming one of the premier juvenile carnivals in Australia so it would be awesome if we were able to snare this one.”

Wagga’s meeting this weekend boasts feature racing wall-to-wall and the Club has been afforded the stand-alone Saturday night time slot which is usually reserved for Menangle.

Making the weekend its own, Wagga has a race meeting on Friday afternoon before hosting a Calcutta at the Riverina Hotel starting at 7pm which will be conducted on the two-year-old colts and geldings final.

The momentum for this carnival has been building for some time and Wagga Board member Brett Hogan says that his Club would be thrilled if it could develop the concept into something even bigger like other feature juvenile carnivals that are conducted throughout Australia.

“The Carnival has gained wonderful support right from the first day that we announced that Wagga would host this race series,” he said.

“In cooperation with Mark and the team at Nutrien we are aiming to make this a flagship event that will grow into the future.”