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By John Schell

A Group 1 win in Perth last Saturday has the Annabel & Rob Archibald training combination set for further success at Scone on Tuesday.

The pair produced Libertad to win the Winterbottom Stakes at the weekend when it scored an upset win over the Bjorn Baker-prepared favourite Overpass.

And they have six runners ready to go around at Scone with Braith Nock and Reece Jones sharing the rides.

Spicy Surprise (Mollie Fitzgerald) heads to the barriers at Hawkesbury. Image by Bradley Photographers

The Archibald duo of Spicy Surprise (Jones-$1.95 favourite on TAB) and All Kirked Up (Nock-$3.40) will line up in the opening event at Scone, the Darley Maiden Plate (1400m).

Spicy Surprise has been placed in two of three starts and was well in the market when seventh at Scone when last produced behind the Kris Lees-trained Crathie Kirk.

All Kirked Up ran second at her first start at Canberra before a midfield finish at Hawkesbury.

Another two runners will represent the Archibald stable in the third event, the Coolmore Benchmark 58 Handicap (1400m).

Jones will partner the consistent Supairo ($3.10 fav), while Nock is steering the lightly raced Insain Jewel ($3.30).

Supairo was narrowly beaten when a last start second as favourite at Nowra, while he’d also been placed in two runs at Muswellbrook before that, in addition to a fourth at Canberra.

Insain Jewel won her maiden at the same track in June. Insain Jewel has had two starts since resuming from a spell for a ninth at Kembla Grange and a fifth at Newcastle.

Nock will ride both remaining Archibald runners in the shape of Shakespeare’s Girl ($9.50) in the Select Events Maiden Handicap (1200m) and Trapeze Legend ($6) in the Arrowfield Benchmark 66 Handicap (1200m).

Shakespeare’s Girl was tested in Listed grade on debut when down the track in the Woodlands Stakes at Scone in May. She’s had two starts back from a spell for a close-up resuming run at this track and a last at Hawkesbury.

Trapeze Legend is a winner of two of his six starts at Scone and Bathurst in September and October of last year. He’s had two runs back from a spell, the latest resulting in a seventh behind Cresta Run at Scone.

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