Peter Moody's Blue Diamond prospects may have taken a large knock thanks to the injury to stable elect Thermal Current, but the premier trainer believes they are far from lost.

Even before the discovery of Thermal Current's hamstring injury, Moody believed each of his other three contenders - Dissident, Kona Breeze and Quest For Peace had better claims than their prices suggested.

While Moody's view of the race in general has changed dramatically with Thermal Current's departure, his thoughts about his runners has not.

If anything, his regard for the outsider of the trio, Kona Breeze, has continued to rise in the week leading up to the $1 million race.

Before the loss of Thermal Current, Moody had attempted to establish a pecking order among his team in gallops on Tuesday morning, pitting the colts Thermal Current and Dissident against each other with the fillies Kona Breeze and Quest For Peace galloping together.

"The fillies actually ran quicker time," Moody said.

"I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a leaning towards my colts, but the fillies both worked well."

Moody clearly has an opinion of Kona Breeze, who is to be ridden in the Diamond by Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Brett Prebble and has finished runner-up to the well-fancied Metastasio at her past two runs.

"She's a remarkable little filly. I thought she'd just be having one run six weeks ago and going to the paddock," Moody said.

"But she just keeps on improving."

Quest For Peace goes into the Diamond with the benefit of two preparations and a larger dose of stamina than her stablemates, a quality Moody believes gives her a chance.

"I've always considered her my Sires' Produce filly, so she's probably going to be stronger than all of them at the end of 1200 metres," he said.

But when it comes to laying it on the line, Moody says he has to stick with Dissident as his best chances of adding this Blue Diamond to the one he claimed with Reward For Effort in 2009.

Moody said Thermal Current had suffered a hamstring injury, possibly in its box overnight, and that the injury doesn't appear to be serious.

"It wasn't something we needed," he said

Thermal Current's scratching had little immediate effect on the Blue Diamond market in which Adelaide filly Miracles Of Life has regained favouritism at $3.10 after her good barrier draw with the Peter Snowden-trained Guelph at $3.20.

Dissident is a $21 chance in most markets with Kona Breeze and Quest For Peace at $67.