Emirates Stakes winner All Silent will step up his work in the next week as he builds towards an autumn campaign that will include a second bite at the Doncaster Handicap.All Silent has not raced since his brilliant 3-3/4 length win over Sea Battle in the Group One Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington in November.Trainer Grahame Begg said the gelding would make his return in the Group Three Liverpool City Cup (1300m) at Warwick Farm on March 7 before tackling the Group Two Canterbury Stakes ove
Emirates Stakes winner All Silent will step up his work in the next week as he builds towards an autumn campaign that will include a second bite at the Doncaster Handicap.
All Silent has not raced since his brilliant 3-3/4 length win over Sea Battle in the Group One Emirates Stakes (1600m) at Flemington in November.
Trainer Grahame Begg said the gelding would make his return in the Group Three Liverpool City Cup (1300m) at Warwick Farm on March 7 before tackling the Group Two Canterbury Stakes over the same trip a couple of weeks later.
The Belong To Me gelding is a half brother to 2004 Doncaster winner Private Steer and has been doing light work since the middle of December and will have his first pace work on Monday.
"Everything's in good order with him, he hasn't done anything too taxing at this stage but he'll ramp it up a little bit from now on," Begg said.
"He'll be starting off in March, so he won't be going too hard just yet."
Following the Canterbury Stakes All Silent will then be aimed at the Group One George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill before heading to his grand final, the $2 million Doncaster Handicap, two weeks later at Randwick.
All Silent charged into calculations for the 2008 Doncaster Handicap after a slashing victory in the Group Two Ajax Handicap (1500m) at Rosehill two weeks earlier.
But a heavy track for the Doncaster proved his undoing and he finished well back in the race won by Triple Honour.
Begg resisted the temptation of chasing another $1 million purse with All Silent in the Railway Stakes in Perth two weeks after the Emirates win.
He also elected to bypass the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Warwick Farm to be run on the same day as the Liverpool City Cup.
"We've held him back deliberately because races like that are just too soon for him, he wouldn't have had any sort of spell," Begg said.
"We'll give him time to work into it and that should have him primed for the Doncaster."
Begg's stable has been scaled down in the past two years but what it lacks in numbers it makes up for in quality.
The trainer took two horses - All Silent and Palacio De Cristal - to Melbourne in the spring and won three races.
On Saturday at Rosehill he had two runners - Handsupfordetroit and Hotel Casino - and both came away with wins.
Handsupfordetroit will now be steered on a path to the Australian Guineas at Flemington in March.