A trio of the autumn’s best two-year-olds will be the headline acts at a Randwick trial session.
Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot and boom colts Storm Boy and Switzerland are set to make their first public appearances of the season at another quality set of barrier trials at Randwick.
Three of the biggest juvenile stars of the autumn, the trio will step out in separate 850m heats on Friday, Switzerland lining up against the recently gelded Aft Cabin, while Lady Of Camelot contests a hot trial that includes Group 1 winners Lady Laguna and Zardozi.
The winner of his first three starts, Switzerland was spelled after suffering his first defeat in the Golden Slipper and following minor surgery to a fetlock, trainer Chris Waller said he had returned in terrific order with the Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) his short-term aim.
"He had a procedure done on a fetlock, it was tidied up perfectly and he has put on weight and strengthened up significantly," Waller said.
"We will probably go Run To The Roses, then Golden Rose and into the Coolmore (Stud Stakes)."
Tulloch Lodge colt Storm Boy is also being readied for a Golden Rose assault.
Beaten as favourite in the Slipper and ATC Sires' Produce Stakes, Storm Boy is on the second line of Golden Rose betting at $6 with co-trainer Adrian Bott drian Bott nominating the San Domenico Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill on August 31 as his likely starting point.
"We are looking at the San Domenico Stakes with him on his way to the Golden Rose," Bott said.
"He is in good shape, and it will be interesting to see how he has matured."
James Mcdonald partnered Storm Boy in two of his three Sydney runs but linked with Switzerland in the Golden Slipper.
The champion hoop, who on Wednesday officially wrapped up a sixth successive Sydney jockeys' title, will be back in the saddle for Storm Boy's trial.
Doncaster Mile runner-up Pericles and Spring Champion Stakes winner Tom Kitten will be among the other big names to trial at Randwick, the latter returning as a gelding after a below-par autumn.
