Injury has halted Washington Heights' spring campaign but trainer Gerald Ryan still has plenty to look forward to with his new season three-year-olds.

Washington Heights will have surgery to remove a bone chip after pulling up sore at trackwork on Thursday.

"He was sore after working the reverse way at Rosehill in preparation for Melbourne and an X-ray on Saturday showed he had a chip in his near side front joint which has to come out," Ryan said.

The colt is still a maiden but his two seconds include the Kindergarten Stakes behind Saturday's Golden Rose winner Hallowed Crown.

While disappointed about Washington Heights, Ryan is excited about the upcoming returns of Time For War and Rubick, both of whom are due to trial at the end of the month.

Rubick has pleased Ryan since his return to the stable after his early preparation was curtailed by a virus which has affected many horses including Golden Slipper winner Mossfun.

The winner of the Blue Diamond Prelude, Rubick's campaign will be restricted to two or three starts.

The colt will be thrown in the deep end with the Group Two Schillaci Stakes at weight-for-age on the Caulfield Guineas program his scheduled first-up start.

"I think the three-year-olds this season will be very hard to beat at weight-for-age," Ryan said.

"After the Schillaci we will look at the Coolmore Stud Stakes."

Time For War, a dual Group One winner of the Pago Pago Stakes and the BRC Sires' Produce, will begin his campaign in Sydney.

"The Roman Consul on the fourth of October or the Brian Crowley a week later are the races we are looking at," Ryan said.

More immediately, Group One winner Peggy Jean lines up in Saturday's Group Two Tea Rose Stakes (1400m) at Randwick, the scene of her ATC Sires' Produce Stakes win.

Peggy Jean finished fifth in the Furious Stakes on her return and will be up against a similar field with the placegetters, Winx, Alpha Miss and Earthquake, all to line up.

"Peggy Jean has improved heaps since the Furious," Ryan said.

"The nice black colour in her coat is starting to come through.

"Jim Cassidy will ride her on Saturday."