Gold Coast sprinter The Virginian heads up the thirty nominations for the 2017 Listed $175,000 City Of Ipswich Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday.

The Virginian failed to gain a start in last Saturday’s Group 1 $1.5m Stradbroke Handicap (1350m) at Doomben after being listed as the first emergency but his form before that would make him one of the top chances in the Eye Liner Stakes.

The Virginian resumed for a resounding first up win in the Listed $100,000 IPG Marketing Solutions Chief De Beers (1050m) at Doomben on May 20 and then ran fourth to Deploy in the Group 2 $175,000 Ascot Green Moreton Cup (1200m) at Doomben on June 3.

The Toby Edmonds trained four year old showed that he had plenty of potential with an eye catching third in the 2016 Stradbroke Handicap and the Gold Coast trainer has also nominated Better Land for the Eye Liner Stakes.

The Desleigh Forster trained Too Good To Refuse ran a mighty race last Saturday when he flashed home to go down narrowly to Miss Gunpowder in the Listed $100,000 Makers Mark Hinkler Handicap (1200m) at Doomben and will be hard to beat if he goes around in the Eye Liner Stakes.

Randwick’s Team Snowden has nominated two sprinters for the Eye Liner Stakes, three year old Acatour and the well performed Snippets Land.

Acatour hasn’t raced since finishing eighth to Mongolian Wolf in the Group 3 $150,000 Mostyn Copper Group Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick on April 15 but was a winner at his previous start in the Group 3 $200,000 Chine Horse Club Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on April 1.

Snippets Land has had two runs this preparation and wasn’t disgraced last start when fifth to Deploy in the Moreton Cup.

The all-powerful Godolphin stable who won last Saturday’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap with Impending, have entered two sprinters for the Eye Liner Stakes, Federal and Handfast.

Federal and Handfast are both coming off a last start runs in the Moreton Cup, finishing seventh and ninth respectively.

The Matthew Dunn trained four year old Perfect Dare is a promising sprinter who will be one of the main chances in the Eye Liner Stakes coming off a last start third in the Moreton Cup while stablemate Strawberry Boy is also among the nominations.

Get all the best odds and form for the Ipswich Cup Race Day at Ladbrokes.com.au.

Nominations for the 2017 Eye Liner Stakes (1350m)

#	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	H Rating
1	604020×199	ABU BEN ADAM	G	6	Pat Duff	78
2	1135x7818x	ACATOUR	C	3	Peter & Paul Snowden	–
3	x211150x84	BANDA SPICE	M	4	Stuart Kendrick	85
4	8x12302x69	BETTER LAND	H	5	Toby Edmonds	77.5
5	702×138131	CANTBUYBETTER	G	5	Ben Currie	97
6	11x590x854	CASUAL CHOICE	G	7	Tony Gollan	94
7	03158333×4	DONTPOKETHETIGER	F	3	Peter Rudkin	–
8	47x165x370	ELEGANT COMPOSURE	M	5	Chris Anderson	88
9	23343×6377	FEDERAL	G	5	Darren Bean	99
10	90526133×0	FLAMBOYER	G	6	Kelly Doughty	97
11	x8138576x9	GLENDARA	G	6	Barry Baldwin	80
12	345×623449	HANDFAST	G	4	Darren Bean	89.5
13	63x164x340	HERMOSA BEACH	M	6	Matthew Dale	79
14	9x0270x276	I AM ZELADY	M	5	Joseph Pride	92
15	0182352650	IN HIS STRIDE	G	4	Rex Lipp	85
16	1115x230x4	MONSIEUR GUSTAVE	G	4	Darryl Hansen	78
17	x6120210x3	PERFECT DARE	G	4	Matthew Dunn	–
18	51814×7534	SHARPE HUSSLER	G	5	Chris Munce	78
19	70x05929x5	SHIRAZ	G	7	Kim Waugh	–
20	5x24335x65	SNIPPETS LAND	G	6	Peter & Paul Snowden	101
21	0x2694686x	STEEL ZIP	G	9	Pat Duff	95
22	348x8635x0	STRAWBERRY BOY	G	8	Matthew Dunn	100
23	66×8275241	SUNNY VICTORY	G	4	Darleen Duryea	75
24	21257×1852	TAILLEVENT	G	4	Bruce W Hill	80
25	1613x66x14	THE VIRGINIAN	G	4	Toby Edmonds	97
26	1524274282	TOO GOOD TO REFUSE	H	4	Desleigh Forster	–
27	347140×556	TOP TONE	G	5	Lorraine Erhart	87
28	873x30x988	TRUBIA	H	5	Michael Lakey	88
29	4210040323	UNO BEST	G	4	Paul Facoory	74
30	8x587x8425	YESTERDAY’S SONGS	G	6	Michael Moroney	96