Trainer Michael Freedman is deliberately giving reigning Golden Slipper-winning filly Marhoona a light spring campaign with her longevity on the racetrack front of mind.
The Emirates Park homebred by Snitzel, who won two of her three starts as a juvenile, resumes in Saturday's Listed Heritage Stakes at Rosehill and Randwick-based Freedman is happy with her condition.
“She’s probably a little stronger and more robust, she’s never going to be a big rangy filly but she has some strength about her and she’s in good nick,’’ Freedman told Racing NSW.
“One thing you don’t have to worry about with a filly is whether they come back too colty which is always a bit of question mark with the colts.
“She’s always going to be a Group 1 winner now so from a future breeding perspective she has that in her back pocket.
"But Hussein Lootah, her owner, is quite keen to see her race on into the future and that’s why we are giving her a lighter spring then into the autumn.”