The Snowden training team is comfortable with its decision to bypass a Golden Slipper start for Pride Of Dubai and focus on the second leg of the juvenile triple crown.

Co-trainer Paul Snowden said the stable was never genuinely tempted by the lure of the Golden Slipper and always felt the 1400 metres of the Sires' Produce Stakes would be a better fit.

"We feel he would have been run off his legs and had a gut buster run in the Slipper," Snowden said.

"He may have been good enough, he may not have, but that didn't come into calculations.

"And going forward there is still another Group One after Saturday if he shows he's good enough."

Pride Of Dubai has not raced since his Blue Diamond Stakes victory at Caulfield in February when he was ridden by Damian Browne.

Hugh Bowman takes over at Randwick on Saturday, a booking Snowden said was made a long way out.

Bowman rode the colt at his Sydney debut in December and was aboard for his recent barrier trial.

"Hughie was very impressed with him and he knows where he's at because Hughie has done all the work on him this preparation," Snowden said.

"That's the main reason he is on him Saturday. Damian did nothing wrong but it has been Hugh's ride."

"He's very forward. He definitely needed the trial the other day, he got a lot out of it fitness-wise."

Pride Of Dubai will face 11 rivals in Saturday's Group One race including English (second), Ready For Victory (fourth) and Odyssey Moon (eighth) who all contested the Golden Slipper.

If the Blue Diamond Stakes winner runs to expectations at Randwick, Snowden confirmed he would be considered for a start in the final leg of the two-year-old triple crown, the Champagne Stakes on April 18.

The Gerald Ryan-trained Perignon, who missed the Slipper to concentrate on the Sires', has been ruled out with a temperature.