TALKING POINTS

DARREN Weir is saddling three fillies as he chases his first VRC Oaks Day win, including favourite and Thousand Guineas winner Amphitrite ($3.30) and fifth- placed Wakeful Stakes runner Verry Elleegant ($5). Zapurler ($12) is a last- start Echuca maiden winner.

AFTER her maiden Wakeful Stakes win, second favourite Aristia ($4.60) is chasing her first Group One victory.

TRAINER Gai Waterhouse has no runners in today’s race after winning her first Oaks with Pinot last year.

ALSO known as Ladies Day, Oaks Day is the most fashion-forward event of the Melbourne Cup carnival.

MELBOURNE Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne will ride for her father Paddy on Avoca maiden winner Miner’s Miss ($51).