Luke Price will be trying to double his chances of training a winner during The Championships when Lani Girl returns to city racing.
Price is setting Group One placegetter Man Of Choice for a support race during The Championships and Lani Girl will be given every opportunity to join her stablemate on Sydney racing's biggest stage.
Lani Girl will contest the Cellarbrations Handicap at Warwick Farm on Wednesday with her young Nowra trainer optimistic the mare can run well enough to improve her rating to earn a berth in a Country Championships qualifier.
"If she can run a race she will nearly go into the Country Championship heat at Goulburn without having another start," Price said.
"If I can get her rating points up a little bit higher it will nearly guarantee her a start."
Lani Girl is the winner of four races in 12 starts with her most recent victory coming over 1400m at Warwick Farm in August.
And Price expects her to improve sharply on her first-up Kembla Grange run where she finished fifth of 11 runners over 1200m.
"She is drawn to get a lovely run and she should be in the finish," Price said.
Price said Man Of Choice, the three-year-old which finished third to Vanbrugh in the Spring Champion Stakes, was likely to have the Carbine Club Stakes as a preferred autumn target.
Lani Girl will clash with Northern Fury, the promising Canberra-trained mare which is a warm favourite to make it four wins from six starts.
Northern Fury is also being aimed at the Country Championships and she will also have to contest the Goulburn heat on February 20 to qualify for the $400,000 final at Randwick on April 2.
Leading jockey Jason Collett was involved in an injury scare during Tuesday's barrier trials at Rosehill.
Collett injured his ankle dismounting from a horse but he told stewards he expects to ride at Warwick Farm where he has a full book.
Tye Angland, however, won't be riding as he continues treatment for a back complaint which he aggravated at Randwick on Saturday.