Four-time Golden Slipper winning trainer Clarry Conners rates the fillies as the benchmark heading towards April's $3.5 million race. Two-year-old stakes racing swings into gear in Sydney this weekend with Conners to start his main Golden Slipper hope, Satin Shoes, in the Listed Widden Stakes (1100m) for fillies at Randwick.
MICHAEL TUBMAN'S fairytale filly Chance Bye had her final public gallop at Kembla Grange yesterday but rival trainer Gerald Ryan has decided to take a different route to the Golden Slipper with unbeaten colt Hinchinbrook.
Grahame Begg could find himself with two Golden Slipper runners if talented juveniles Ilovethiscity and Mafia Miss win their key lead-up races on Saturday.