Malaika Queen is dropping sharply from A4 grade at 480m where she just produced a 76-rated winning performance — a level of form that is in a completely different league to anything else in tonight's field. Her average performance across recent A4 races has been consistently in the 50s and 60s, including a 73 and a 67 in the run before the win. She has not run at 270m before, which is a genuine unknown, but her pace profile as a Fader — going hard early and not needing to close — is actually well-suited to a sprint where 270 metres does not allow a fade to develop. Drawn in trap 2, the best-performing box at D3 270m here from 225 runs, she gets every structural advantage available. The class difference between what she has been doing and what this field can produce is simply too large to ignore.