Peter Moody’s Wangoom Handicap winner Kneeling is nominated to back up in Adelaide this weekend against her own kind in the Proud Miss Stakes 2014.

One of five Group races on Morphettville’s The Goodwood Day line-up, this year’s $115,000 Group 3 Proud Miss Stakes (1200m) drew a bumper 22 nominations.

The top-rated nominee for the fillies’ and mares’ feature is Moody’s Encosta De Lago five-year-old Kneeling who is looking to go back-to-back if accepted.

She broke a nine month winning drought at Warrnambool last week when holding on in a tight finish with the always honest Blackie to win the $150,000 Wangoom Handicap (1200m) in the mud making her jockey Linda Meech the first female hoop to win the race.

Moody then could look to keep the good times going for Kneeling by taking her to South Australia for the Proud Miss this weekend.

There’s also a chance that, if successful there, she could be sent to Queensland for a shot at the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival riches.

One of her main dangers looks to be local hope Just Discreet, the Phillip Stokes-trained Exceed And Excel mare having run second to Assertive Eagle in this race last year when it held only Listed status.

The now five-year-old has been in good form of late including her Group 3 RN Irwin Stakes (1100m) third behind Driefontein and Platelet two back.

In her latest run she ran eighth behind the Gai Waterhouse-trained Driefontein again when stepped up to Group 1 company for the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) on April 26, an effort she’ll be out to improve on here.

Another Robert Sangster Stakes graduate nominated to back-up in this is the Samantha Barr-trained Molto Bene (12^th) who ran dead last beaten 13 lengths.

Another mare in flying form meanwhile nominated for the Proud Miss is then the David Hayes-trained Girl Guide.

The four-year-old daughter of Churchill Downs has won four of her five starts to date, including her last three on the trot.

Most recently she won a Benchmark 84 over 1300m at Sandown a fortnight ago, form Hayes hopes she can bring to Adelaide for a Black Type win.

Other notable hopes include Barry Dunn’s last start Oakbank winner Bella Dolce, promising Statue Of Liberty filly Miss Steele coming off a Moonee Valley win from March and Robbie Griffiths’ in-form Nadeem Lass.

The full Proud Miss Stakes 2014 nominations are listed below with the final field due for release on Wednesday.

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2014 Proud Miss Stakes Nominations

Morphettville Racecourse – 05/10/2014

#	Horse	Trainer	Ballot	Wgt.	H. Rating
1	JUST DISCREET	Phillip Stokes	1	57kg	94
2	OCTAVIA	Michael Moroney	2	57kg	93
3	LADY MELKSHAM	Andrew Dillon	3	57kg	92
4	KNEELING	Peter G Moody	4	56kg	96
5	MOLTO BENE	Samantha Barr	5	56kg	95
6	CLASSY CHLOE	John Hickmott	6	56kg	87
7	JOLIE BLONDE	Mark Riley	7	56kg	87
8	PRETTYHAPPYABOUTIT	Robbie Griffiths	8	56kg	82
9	VIBRANT ROUGE	Glenn Thornton	9	55.5kg	92
10	KOE (NZ)	Terry & Karina O’Sullivan	10	55.5kg	86
11	DASHITUDE	Chris Bieg	11	55.5kg	83
12	YOU CAN DANCE	Robbie Griffiths	12	55.5kg	83
13	GIRL GUIDE	David Hayes	13	55.5kg	81
14	MISS STEELE	Michael Kent	14	54kg	79
15	NADEEM LASS	Robbie Griffiths	15	55.5kg	74
16	BELLA DOLCE	Barry Dunn	16	55.5kg	74
17	SHADE OF GREEN	Grant Young	17	55.5kg	74
18	I LOVE IT	John Salanitri	18	54kg	73
19	VICARIO	Mick Price	19	55.5kg	73
20	MIRACLE TO ME	John McArdle	20	54kg	72
21	SENTFROMTHESTARS	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	21	54kg	65
22	OUR LITTLETREASURE	Kerri McAnulty & Clint Binnie	22	55.5kg	64