By Daithi Harvey
Last year's G1 Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign (Aus) (Manhattan Rain {Aus}) will not line up for this weekend's G1 Newmarket H., her trainer Gary Portelli confirmed on Monday.
“I just don't think it's the right race for her,” Portelli told Racing.com. “We've got other options and I don't want to knock her around before I have to.”
Bargain yearling purchase She Will Reign has made two starts this year, winning the Inglis Sprint at Warwick Farm Feb. 10 before finishing a never nearer 10th in the G1 Ladbrokes Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield two weeks later. Instead of letting her take her chance this Saturday, Portelli has the G1 William Reid S. at Moonee Valley on Mar. 23 in mind for the filly and her performance there will determine future targets.
“We'll go to the William Reid and then work out where we go from there,” he said. “If she ran well then she'll go to the T.J. Smith S. a couple of weeks later, but if we felt she needed to come back to her own grade there is the Arrowfield Sprint for 3-year-olds a week later.”
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