This spring has already seen several favourites come a cropper in the weight-for-age races but Miss Finland is ready to stop the trend in Saturday's Cox Plate.
And her biggest danger may not come from fellow fab four members - Haradasun, Marasco and El Segundo - but the Mark Kavanagh-trained mare Devil Moon.
Not a star as a three-year-old, Devil Moon is unbeaten in her three runs in this spring, including a shock win in the Group One Turnbull last start.
She is a winner at the Valley, has won over 2000m at Group One level, has winning form, will race on or just behind the pace and has a good gate. Wouldn't it make for a great story if Kavanagh won a week after Maldivian's sensational scratching at Caulfield?
The only negative is she meets Haradasun and El Segundo worse at the weights from the Turnbull, though she did beat those two fair and square that day.
But she has never met fellow four-year-old Miss Finland. And based on their three-year-old form Miss Finland is the vastly superior mare.
It's hard to believe Miss Finland, a Golden Slipper winner, is now being accused of becoming too dour, perhaps because she's Melbourne Cup-bound or has become stale at Caulfield, the scene of six of her past eight starts.
Even if she cannot recapture her brilliant turn of foot, it would be foolish to dismiss her on that count alone. The Cox Plate is a high-pressure race and is rarely won by a horse without stamina.
And she has the most room for improvement out of many of her rivals as this race will be her fourth this campaign, whereas it will be the fifth and sixth for Haradasun, El Segundo and Marasco.
Haradasun has hardly put a foot wrong all spring, it's just that he hasn't been winning. He showed he could handle the Valley when beaten in the Feehan and, according to trainer Tony Vasil, behaved impeccably in the Turnbull and the 2000m will not pose a problem.
El Segundo grows another leg at the Valley, where he has three wins and two placings from six starts. His run in the Turnbull was below par but so were that of a lot of others. The doubt with him is the 2040m as he may be at his best at 1600-1800m.
The same could be said for Marasco, who was the most dismal failure in the Turnbull.
Lloyd Williams' pair Zipping and Efficient, who both love Moonee Valley, are the two strongest stayers in the field but need a strong pace, which they may not get, to be a genuine winning chance.
Brilliant swooper Divine Madonna, who is untried at 2000m, is rated the best hope of the milers. Despite her racing pattern, a fast pace would not play in her favour as it could dull her sizzling late sprint.
Niconero ($41) is a genuine longshot place hope. He has won at Group One level, been placed on another six occasions and run fourth and fifth three times. The Hayes stable is confident he can run in the top five.
Magic Cape ran third behind Caulfield Cup placegetter Princess Coup last start in New Zealand's premier race but could not beat Mandela at his run before that.
The race is somewhat of an afterthought for Eskimo Queen, who would not have started had she not been a late scratching in the Caulfield Cup. On her Underwood run, where she was an unlucky fourth, she could place at odds.
Wonderful World, last year's Caulfield Guineas winner, is suspect at the trip and in this class, while it would be a big shock if sentimental favourite Lad Of The Manor saluted but not if he finished in the first eight and recouped $100,000 for his owners.
Lucky Wu (Andrew Wu)
Miss Finland
Devil Moon
Haradasun
Best roughie: Niconero
Hands and Heals (Jono Healy)
Devil Moon
Efficient
Haradasun
Best Roughie: Marasco
Clark of the Course (John Clark)
Devil Moon
Haradasun
Miss Finland
Best Roughie: Zipping