Annabel Neasham is looking to put away the disappointment of 12 months ago when she saddles three runners in the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

Zaaki, Mo’Unga and Laws Of Indicies gives Neasham three runners in the Group 1 weight-for-age championship over 2040m on Saturday, the only trainer with multiples runners in the race.

Neasham was deflated 12 months ago when Zaaki, who had been the favourite, was scratched on race morning last year with a virus.

“Zaaki picked himself up and two weeks later won the Mackinnon Stakes,” Neasham said.

“It’s a game of highs and lows all the time and there is still a bit of time between now and Saturday, so you take every day as it comes.”

Neasham could not have hoped for a better barrier for Zaaki who came up with barrier one in Tuesday morning’s draw.

With a habit of wanting to lay in towards the rail racing in Melbourne, Neasham and jockey Jamie Kah had hoped for barrier one with the rail guide the gelding.

“Jamie felt it was key if we could get the rail as it would aid his chances, and from that draw, hopefully all going well, he should be on the rail,” Neasham said.

“I certainly prefer him laying into the rail, rather than another horse.

“Number one at The Valley is usually a positive. It can occasionally be a negative, particularly if the rain comes and they’re racing off the rail, but he lays-in a bit going this way.”

Neasham has elected to remove the blinkers from Laws Of Indicies, drawn in barrier three, as the entire steps up to the 2040m for the first time.

Laws Of Indicies flashed home to finish second behind Tuvalu in the Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield on October 8.

“At his last couple of starts he has been over-racing in the first half of the race, so we have taken the blinkers off,” Neasham said.

“I think that we will take a bit of a sit and get a bit of a smother and use the gate to our advantage.”

The third of Neasham’s runners, Mo’unga, drew barrier nine.

Neasham said Mo’unga appreciated galloping room and could move into the race when jockey Nash Rawiller wanted.

“He is a horse that you don’t want to be smothered up on the fence,” Neasham said.

“He needs to be making his run from the 600 metres, that’s the best way to ride him.

“It’s always a nerve-racking experience these barrier draws because they can change a lot of things.

“I hope the draw has suited all three of our horses.

“Time will tell come Saturday.”