Gerald Ryan's affinity with the Snitzel breed continued at Randwick on Monday with lightly-raced four-year-old Snitsky claiming his first metropolitan win.

While Golden Slipper runner-up Snitzerland has been flying the stable flag with three wins from three starts this campaign, Ryan has a high opinion of Snitsky and believes he can win at stakes level after recording his fourth win from eight starts.

Ryan said there was no trick to training the breed who descend from his 2006 Oakleigh Plate winner.

"Some trainers seem to get more of one breed and it's just happened that way," Ryan said.

"He is a nice little horse and is getting better as he gets older.

"I've always thought he was a stakes horse but he went shin sore four times which is unusual for the breed.

"I've got a couple of stakes races in the back of my mind for him."

Ryan said Snitzerland, winner of Friday night's Champagne Stakes at Moonee Valley, had pulled up well and would run in the Blue Sapphire Stakes on October 13.

Stablemate Villa Splendido will run in the Listed Yellowglen Stakes at Flemington on Saturday on her way to the Thousand Guineas.

Damien Oliver has been booked for Villa Splendido pending the outcome of his appeal against a suspension for slowing up on Elite Elle in the Champagne at Moonee Valley.

Snitsky ($3.20) went to the line a half length in front of Lautrec ($18) to win the Thankyou Libby Trickett Handicap (1400m).

The race was named in honour of the Australian Olympic swimmer who joined the 4Tracks4Kids charity walk on Monday.

The brainchild of racing personality Richard Callander, the walk started at Warwick Farm, with 150 people trekking to Rosehill, Canterbury and Randwick racecourses before ending the journey at the Randwick Children's Hospital, raising more than $250,000.

Trickett said it had been a hard slog.

"I'm not as confident on land as I am in water and I am a sprinter," she said.

"We just put one foot in front of the other and everyone is in as much pain as the next person but it's for a great cause."