Cardigan trainer Emma Stewart will have the rare distinction of having all the starters in the $15,000 Colin and Heather Holloway 3yo Classic at Ballarat trots on Friday night.
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Stewart provided the only six nominations for the classic - one of three feature races on the program.
Group 1 winners Centenario and Hurricane Harley head up the star-studded line-up.
Centenario claimed the Vicbred Super Series and Australian Pacing Gold titles as a two-year-old and two starts ago took out a New South Wales Derby heat.
Hurricane Harley won an Australasian Breeders Crown last season and Victoria Derby heat earlier this year.
Four of the classic runners - Centenario, Hurricane Harley, Demon Delight and Fourbigman - all made the NSW Derby final.
Another hometown prospect shapes as the one to beat in the group 3 $25,000 John Slack Memorial Trotters' Cup.
Last-start group 1 winner Savannah Jay Jay goes into the event in career-best form for trainer Stan Cameron.
The eight-year-old has gone to a whole new level in his latest three outings, winning back-to-back group 3 events and then saluting in the Australasian Trotters' Championship.
The Anton Golino-trained duo of Pizza Queen and Ima Bourbon Girl loom as the main dangers.
The AJ Prendergast Memorial Trotters' Handicap rounds out the race card, which has been combined with a Plate Up fund-raiser for the Ballarat Foundation Feed Up Appeal and night community market
