Cartledge prepares for Saturday's Daylesford Women's 100-metre Gift as the newly crowned Maryborough title holder, having captured her first women's sash at Princes Park on New Year's Day.

The 16-year-old will get her start off 7.75m in heat one with event backmarker Sophie Taylor (2.5m) in the red.

Cartledge is one of four Ballarat sprinters in the Women's Gift field at Cricket Willow. Her POD Squad stablemates Delany Keating (8.25m), Cleo Anderson (7.5m) and Grace O'Dwyer (6.5m) are also in contention.

Geelong athlete Angela Byrt won the Daylesford sash off one metre last season but is not returning to defend her title.

Cartledge is familiar with victory at Cricket Willow. She won the women's under-18 100m final last year and showed strong form in South Australia's Bay Sheffield earlier this week.

Newcastle's Marty Sinclair will work to defend his Daylesford Gift 100m title off 9.5m.

Sinclair captured his title with a limp, largely due to a busy race program, but will have no room for fatigue this time.

A fired-up Maryborough Gift victor Matthew Eddy is hunting the Maryborough-Daylesford double after a strong finish at Princes Park.

Eddy snared his second marnarrow andquee Maryborough sash days after finishing an agonising third in the Bay Sheffield feature race.

The 34-year-old says he is in the best form of his life in a continued comeback from a year sidelined with a groin injury.

Eddy will start off 7m at Cricket Willow in heat three, which will feature Australian world championship representative Matt Davies off scratch.

Ballarat's Jordan Keast (8m), Peter O'Dwyer (8.5m), Rod Mathews (9.5m), Nathan Dixon (6.75m) and Daniel Martin (10m) are also named to contest the top Daylesford sash.

Martin was among a string of Ballarat athletes to dominate the podium at Maryborough. He won his first VAL sash when he topped the veterans' 300m final.

120M HEATS

DAYLESFORD GIFT 

HEAT 1

RED Matthew Hargreaves (Tarneit) 5

WHITE Dion Paull (Croydon Hills) 6.25

BLUE Shane Ezard (Torquay 8

YELLOW Jake Ryder (Thornton) 10

GREEN Stephanie Richards (Maidstone) 14

PINK Greg O'Keeffe (Wangaratta) 14.5

BLACK Tony O'Shea (Frankston) 20

HEAT 2

RED Patrick Beguely (Brighton)  5

WHITE Steve Fabris (Balwyn) 6.5

BLUE Rhys Parkinson (Melton)  7

YELLOW Jordan Keast (Delacombe)  8

GREEN Walter Pasquali (Wangaratta)  10.25

PINK Mathew Boyes (Frankston)  14.5

BLACK Philip Ryder (Thornton)  17

HEAT 3

RED Matt Davies (Mansfield) scr

WHITE Ross Langbein (Dee Why)  5

BLUE Douglas Greenough (East Bentleigh)  6.75

YELLOW Matthew Eddy (Narre Warren)  7

GREEN Derek Collinge (Belconnen)  8.25

PINK Wade Girotto (Pascoe Vale)  9

BLACK Lawrence Coop (L. Plenty)  10.5

HEAT 4

RED Tim Rooke (Beaumaris)  2

WHITE Marika Koroibete (Point Cook)  5

BLUE Chad Ryan (Melbourne)  6.75

YELLOW Nicholas Cross (Carnegie)  7.25

GREEN Dean Dobric (St Kilda)  8.25

PINK Marty Sinclair (Lamberton)  9.5

BLACK Tom Morehouse (Chelsea)  10.5

HEAT 5

RED Carl Morehouse (Mt Waverley)  4.25

WHITE Bros Kelly (Hastings)  5.25

BLUE Paul Tancredi (Essendon)  6.75

YELLOW Fraser Heard (Willaura)  7.5

GREEN William Little (Glenhuntly)  9.5

PINK Adam Cabble (Chirnside Park)  10.75

BLACK John Hilditch (Altona)  14.5

HEAT 6

RED Kevin Brittain (Grovedale)  4.5

WHITE Ollie Wurm (Prahran)  5.75

BLUE Benjamin Farrell (Geelong)  6.75

YELLOW Leighton Stace (Carlton North)  7.5

GREEN Peter O'Dwyer (Ballarat)  8.5

PINK Rod Mathews (Buninyong)  9.5

BLACK Jonathon Rogers (Lysterfield)  11.25

HEAT 7

RED Tom Newman (NSW)  4.5

WHITE Tim Eschebach (Thornton)  5.75

BLUE Nathan Dixon (Ballarat)  6.75

YELLOW Chris Diegan (Williamstown)  8

GREEN Richard Brown (Balmoral)  8.75

PINK Leigh Phelan (Brighton)  10

BLACK Timothy Rosen (Bentleigh)  11.75

GREY Richard Norris (Morningside)  17.25

HEAT 8

RED Jack Newman (Largs)  4.75

WHITE Young Tonumaipea (Roxburgh)  6.25

BLUE Charlie Moran (Reservoir)  6.75

YELLOW Matthew Harvey (Edithvale)  8

GREEN Matthew D'Astoli (South Yarra)  8.75

PINK Daniel Martin (Ballarat)  10

BLACK Glenn Stephens (Epsom)  13

WOMEN'S VASE

HEAT 1

RED Sophie Taylor (Bendigo)  2.5

WHITE Karlee Bailey (Pakenham)  6

BLUE Bianca Trimboli (Woodend)  6.75

YELLOW Jenna Cartledge (Ballarat)  7.75

GREEN Loryn Savoia (Springhill)  9.25

PINK Kasey Moore (Wantirna)  10.25

BLACK Megan McMahon (Sunshine)  14.5

GREY Angela Wilson (Sandringham)  22.75

HEAT 2

RED Lauren Russo  4.5

WHITE Stephanie Lockhart (Keilor)  6.25

BLUE Tierra Exum (Seabrook)  7

YELLOW Delany Keating (Lake Gardens)  8.25

GREEN Susan Sinclair (Waverley)  9.5

PINK Anne Fiedler (Healesville)  11.75

BLACK Danielle McDowell (Diamond Creek)  15.75

HEAT 3

RED Ebony Lane (Frankston)  5

WHITE Hayley Orman (Coromandel)  6.25

BLUE Cleo Anderson (Buninyong)  7.5

YELLOW Anna Pasquali (Wangarratta)  8.25

GREEN Celia Cosgriff (Richmond)  10

PINK Jessica Farrugia (Broadford)  12

BLACK Samantha Hargreaves (Tarneit)  16.25

HEAT 4

RED Jody Richards  5.75

WHITE Grace O'Dwyer (Ballarat)  6.5

BLUE Hayley Openshaw (Warradale)  7.75

YELLOW Natasha McDowell (Ringwood)  8.5

GREEN Sonya Pollard (Mt Waverley)  13.5

PINK Nadeen Brown (Bundoora)  10.75

BLACK Elissa Ward (Preston)  19.25