Steely is the new favourite for the Group 2 Villiers Stakes.

The Chris Waller stable may have only two starters in Saturday’s $250,000 Villiers Stakes at Randwick.

Honest galloper Bottled Up can break through for his first home track win in today's Honor In War @ Ilala Stud Handicap (race 7) at Muswellbrook.

Enterprising Scone stud owners George and Felicity Fraser, the breeders of 2009 Melbourne Cup winner Shocking, are offering mare owners the opportunity to use the four sires, including two Group1 winners, in the 2011 season at their Ilala stud at very modest cost.

The famous "Mile" at Randwick hosts another big race on Saturday when the time-honoured Villiers Stakes is run.