The season's end always creates opportunities in the Peter Moody stable.

Mares head off to stud with the jobs done on the track but retirements leave Moody with the task of finding his next crop of top stakes performers.

Moody's four-year reign at the top of the Melbourne trainers' premiership will end on July 31 when Ballarat horseman Darren Weir claims the title but such matters are not a priority.

The Caulfield-based Moody knows retiring his best female stock is an obligation he must go through every season.

Not even the great Black Caviar was immune from the task.

This season the likes of Wangoom Handicap winner Kneeling and Floria were among those retired, the latter's career ended just days after she claimed the Group Two Brisbane Cup at Eagle Farm.

"I retired five stakes quality mares in the past two weeks," Moody said.

"That happens every year.

"Last year we did Lights Of Heaven and four or five others but the nature of my business is that I train for a lot of big commercial breeders."

Golden Slipper placegetter Bring Me The Maid, Group Two winner Spirits Dance and emerging talent River Delta are among those set to become the stars of Moody's stable next season.

But developing filly Dig A Pony will have a chance to move up the pecking order in the Moody camp when she runs in Saturday's Ken Cox Handicap (1400m) at Flemington.

Dig A Pony resumed with a strong win at Sale on May 29 but Moody says the transition between provincial racing and city class is a lot smoother during the winter months.

"There's not a lot of difference between that form and city form at this time of the year," Moody said.

Moody said drawing the outside barrier in a 12-horse field was Dig A Pony's biggest obstacle rather than the standard of her opposition.

However, the trainer said Dig A Pony could figure in the finish if the right circumstances prevailed in the $80,000 contest.

"It just depends how big a start she gives them and whether they'll be able to run on during the day I suppose," Moody said.

Linda Meech will ride Dig A Pony, which will be one of five Moody-trained runners to step out at Flemington.