Zilarator headed 24 horses confirmed today for the £30,000 Tote Scoop6 November Handicap at Doncaster on Saturday.
Weights for the race will rise by at least 6lb which means the Chris Thornton-trained Flossy will have to defy 9st 7lb if she is to become the first horse to win the last big race of the Flat season twice.
However, some of the four-year-old`s leading rivals in the ante-post market for the race have dropped out at the confirmation stage.
Most prominent is Romantic Affair, who had been 8-1 second favourite with the sponsors after winning at Newmarket last Friday, while the John Gosden-trained duo Dance Director and Bound For Pleasure are also absentees.
Gosden, three times a winner of the race in the 1990s, has also withdrawn his other possible Ormelie.
Leading fancies who stood their ground include Carly`s Quest, runner-up in the race for the last two years, Dhaudeloup and Seren Hill, who beat Flossy by a short-head at Newmarket last time but is 10lb worse off with the favourite here.
