The annual Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) ultra-rich Two-Year-Old Stakes opens the two-year-old season with a rush of 11 races at Caymanas Park today, headlined by the Cash Pot Only One For Me Trophy feature.

The trilogy of races offers owners and trainers of potentially gifted native-bred two year olds a chance to prepare their juveniles through early competitive racing opportunities for entry into the three-year-old Classic season and other important races on the racing calendar.

In the first leg, the Cash Pot Only One For Me Trophy, they will go 1,200 metres for a purse of $2.95 million.

A decent field of eight runners will face the starter at the penultimate stage of the programme, with the Cash Pot Only One For Me Trophy race scheduled to go to post at approximately 4:35 pm with the first post at noon.

Though expected to be competitive, the prospect is that the grand showdown will be between the stables of 15-time champion trainer Wayne DaCosta with three capable suspects and that of trainer Richard Azan with two.

Azan will saddle the ever-improving fillies

Money Magnet andAwesome Sauce, while DaCosta will throw down the gauntlet with his fashionably bred,unbeaten fillyShe’s A Maneater, along with two fiercely competitive colts, the unbeatenArmageddon andMr Universe.

Be that as it may, the fight for the major share of the spoils may not rest only with the aforementioned runners but with others such as

Storm Princess, along with Dennis Lee’s pair of fillyLady Faye and coltEl Gato.

All eight runners are winners in their own rights, but the impressive wins recorded by

She’s A Maneater, Money Magnet andArmageddon should give all three outstanding chances to land the gambit, withShe’s A Maneater leading the chase.

DaCosta has a way with fillies and should this

Ahwhofah progeny live up to projections, then another outstanding thoroughbred likeThornbird in the early 1980s could be on the horizon. Extremely well bred on both sides to stay and sprint, the bay filly is byNatural Selection out of the speedy Horse Of The Year-winningRoyal Minister mare,Ahwhofah.

Bred and owned by Winston Kong,

She’s A Maneater made light work of an eight-horse field in a smashing debut as the 1/9 favourite. She obliged by winning by all of 13 3/4 widening lengths while covering the distance of 1,100 metres in a fine 1:05.3 minutes on Septemeber 24.

She’s A Maneater is now returning to action after a 21-day respite and will encounter her stiffest test when facing the best crop of her age group on show. But in spite of just one competitive race under her girth, the precocious filly will, nonetheless, do so well-geared for the challenge. Omar Walker, the four-time champion jockey and current leading rider, will remain in the tack to pilot the filly into battle from barrier #4 when the starter lets them go.

The experienced and top-weighted

Money Magnet (54.5kg), with two wins from three starts, is the biggest threat to aShe’s A Maneater victory. And there are good reasons for this. BeforeShe’s A Maneater appeared on the horizon to impose herself on the racing public’s consciousness,Money Magnet, who will exit from barrier #3, looked invincible.

And even when losing her second start to a smart-looking effort from

Very Classic, Money Magnet never looked beaten. She looked only as though something was amiss. Whatever the problem, it was quickly diagnosed and sought out by Azan 15 days after her racing blip.Money Magnet returned to the track for the Keeling Memorial Cup on Lasix and romped the event, going away by eight and a half lengths over 1,100 metres.

Owned by NYA and bred by Richard Azan and Edison Chai,

Money Magnet is byNuclear Wayne out of theAl’s River Cat speedy mareJazzy Jet and has shown good speed and enough bite in her preparation gallops to test the true grit ofShe’s A Maneater, with apprentice Bebeto Harvey returning to the irons in place of Odeen Edwards who won aboard the filly on last.

While the race is expected to be a contest between the top two fillies,

Money Magnet andShe’s A Maneater, the two stablemate colts ofShe’s A Maneater are also expected to be more than goading factors.Mr Universe — a chestnut byRegion Of Merit out of theAl’s River Cat mareRaging Fury, bred at Orange Valley Estate and owned by Carlton Watson — went down by eight and a half lengths toMoney Magnet in his second attempt and could prove to be a different proposition on this occasion.

When he last met

Money Magnet he was allowing her 4.0kg by toting 54.0kg. On this occasion, though,Mr Universe is being allowed a half kilo advantage with the filly coming in at 54.5kg. And also, being relieved of his encumbrances of blinkers and tongue tie, he could be at the heart of the battle when this is being decided, with jockey Orlando Foster saddled with the job to navigate.

Armageddon, as the name suggests, could be just as devastating, having ran 1,100 metres a fraction of a second slower than the time did byMoney Magnet. This was while the colt was carrying 54.0kg on debut. And now with the first-race tension out of the way and being on first-time Lasix, theNuclear Wayne/Bonsai dark bay colt could take a serious hand in the finish with veteran Panamanian jockey Ameth Robles getting a rare call from the stables of the champion trainer to do duty.