Sunday, 14 March 2010:
Distinctive white filly The Opera House will have a barrier trial at Gosford on Monday before trainer Kris Lees decides where the three-year-old races next.
The Opera House has only had two starts for a fifth in a 1400m 3YO Maiden at Newcastle on debut before a luckless second at Gosford in a 1600m Maiden on January 13.
"She'll have a quiet trial on Monday and then we'll decide where we kick off her campaign," Lees said.
The trainer won the Queensland Oaks with Vitesse Dane in 2005 and that is the race he would like to target with The Opera House.
"If she is good enough our plan is to aim her at the Queensland Oaks," Lees said.
One of The Opera House's owners is flamboyant businessman John Singleton, who looks like playing a major role in Oaks races around the country in coming months.
The prominent owner already has the
Gai Waterhouse-trained Once Were Wild on an AJC Australian Oaks path while the Anthony Cummings-trained Tallow is likely to run in the Group One Australasian Oaks in Adelaide on Saturday.
Former rugby league great Andrew Johns is also in the ownership of the filly along with eight people who each won a share in a raffle held last year.
Pure white thoroughbreds are extremely rare and The Opera House is even more special as a three-quarter sister to champion Might And Power.
