Gavin Lang, who is the regular driver of the trio, has chosen to stay with Guaranteed.

Nathan Jack will take the reins on Philadelphia Man, while Greg Sugars will be in charge of Restrepo.

The engagements are the same as had been set in place for the Ballarat Pacing Cup last month before their dramatic last-minute scratchings owing to sulky irregularities.

Guaranteed is second favourite at $5 with TAB.com.au

Beautide, which finished ahead of Guaranteed in a trial in Ballarat on Saturday morning heads the mark at $3.

Philadelphia Man is on the third line of betting at $6, while Restrepo is an outsider at $41.

The Victoria Cup will be the second time any of the three Stewart stable stars have clashed.

Philadelphia Man and Restrepo have met twice - the 2012 Victoria Derby, when each finished unplaced, and this year's Horsham Pacing Cup, when Philadelphia Man won with Restrepo second.

MEANWHILE, the Stewart-trained Beauty Secret will have her first start since her aborted Ballarat Pacing Cup assignment when she returns to Ballarat's Bray Raceway on Friday night.

She lines up in the MG Walls C7/better Pace, 2200m.

Beauty Secret has not raced since winning back-to-back races at Menangle on November 15 and 29 - the latter being the group 2 $50,000 Robin Dundee Stakes, 1609m, in a mile rate of 1:52.7.

The now six-year-old group 1 winning mare has won four of her past five starts to take her earnings to $385,000.

Despite her obvious class, Beauty Secret will not necessarily get everything her own way with the brilliant Chilli Palmer also engaged.

However, Chilli Palmer is the emergency for the Victoria Cup.

There have been no early indications that the five-year-old will get a run at Melton so as of late Thursday he appeared likely to be Ballarat bound.

Although he has a tendency of mixing his form the Amanda Grieve-trained speedster returned from a break with a third to Christen Me in the Bendigo Pacing Cup.

Beauty Secret headlines a string of top class fillies and mares on Ballarat and District Trotting Club's nine-race program.

Smooth Showgirl fits the bill in the Dodds Plumbing 3yo Pace, 2200m.

Trained by Belinda McCarthy in NSW and driven by James Rattray, Smooth Showgirl won the group 1 Seymour Nursery final in Brisbane last season.

She resumed this season with a win at Melton, but will be no easy task.

Smooth Showgirls clashes with Just Stopandstare, which will be improved by her one Australian start for Peter Manning since arriving from New Zealand, and group 2 winner Lovelist.

Im Jay Tee is another intriguing runner in Country Clubs Championship heat, 2200m.

The four-year-old gelding is trained by Brad Hewitt in Goulburn, NSW, and having his first start in Victoria.

He finished fourth in last season's Queensland Derby and before his last start win in Goulburn was second in the group 3 Inter City final at Maitland.