Australian Guineas or Randwick Guineas? My ringside scorecard has it even after two rounds - not withstanding there shouldn't even be a bout in the first place.
The select but elite Randwick feast was a popular winner last term, but the depth of this year's Australian Guineas has the ledger squared on Saturday. 
Certainly six individual group 1 winners contesting the Australian Guineas has Flemington flexing its muscle a little more as the country's racing administrators prepare to smoke a peace pipe to sort out the scheduling stupor.
Perhaps the fact a flight-weary Xtravagant couldn't fly the gates on a New Zealand tarmac on at least two occasions should have Australian Guineas favourite backers a little wary. Undoubtedly a talent - an eight-length group 1 winner at his last start - the $3.40 looks skinny for Xtravagant's first Australian start against a legion of tried and tested types who know every blade of Flemington grass.
Tivaci ($15), the beneficiary of the controversial Palentino protest in the traditional warm-up of the CS Hayes Stakes, looks at luxurious odds again - and is already a friend of this column. Speared off the track and still bobbing at the finish over 1400 metres, he can be in the running line again and be tough at the end of the mile.
Randwick Guineas? Press Statement ($1.50), on paper, looks another odds-on Waller winner. Value hunters would do well to entertain Montaigne, an eye-catching Hobartville Stakes placegetter, for the exotics. The $2.30 for a hole is more than acceptable.
If Press Statement will be China Horse Club's crowning moment at Randwick, First Seal might be the kick starter. The Millie Fox heroine ($2.30 out to $2.75) has been an early Canterbury Stakes drifter with fellow favourite Our Boy Malachi ($2.50 out to $3.20) as money floods in for Godolphin's three-year-old Holler ($18 into $7.50).
He will do well to topple John Thompson's queen though, who only has to defy second-up syndrome to be in the finish.
China Horse Club's other runner, Auvray, won't be found anywhere near the top of betting markets for the Randwick City Stakes. But a small nibble at the big odds of $31 might not be the silliest play.
* Odds supplied by Ladbrokes
Weekend selections
Flemington, race 7: Tivaci ($15)
Randwick, race 3: Auvray ($31)
Randwick, race 5: First Seal ($2.75)
Randwick, race 7: Montaigne ($2.30 place)