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Corey Brown will make a second special trip to Newcastle on Wednesday morning to partner his Everest mount In Her Time in a barrier trial.

Brown was reunited with the classy mare when he rode her in an exhibition gallop between races at last Friday’s Newcastle Gold Cup meeting.

In Her Time, who joined the Kris Lees stable last week after the suspension of her former trainer Ben Smith, will contest a 1000m trial on the inner Beaumont track on Wednesday.

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The trial is scheduled for 8.30am and will give Brown time to return to Sydney to ride at the Warwick Farm meeting on Wednesday afternoon.

Group One winner Clearly Innocent, lightly-raced three-year-old The Tenor and the unbeaten Wyong-trained mare In Good Time are among rhe rivals for In Her Time in Wednesday’s trial.

Brown won the Sydney Stakes on In Her Time at Randwick last October and also was aboard when she was narrowly beaten by Hey Doc in the G1 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley last spring.

Lees and Brown were pleased with In Her Time’s exhibition gallop last Friday and are confident she is in great shape for Saturday week’s $500,000 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at Randwick, her lead-up to the $13 million Everest on October 13.

El Dorado Dreaming, following her forced withdrawal from last Saturday’s Tea Rose Stakes at Randwick due to swab irregularities, may now head straight to Melbourne for her first start for Lees.

“I’ll wait until we see how she trials but there is every chance she could go to Melbourne and resume in the Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield on Sunday week,” Lees said.

Racing NSW stewards received advice from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory that an analytical screen of an out of competition sample taken from El Dorado Dreaming on September 15 has been cleared of any irregularity.

She is is now permitted to race and barrier trial under the care of Lees.

Lees will also start the unbeaten Smart Melody, a brilliant Flemington winner last Saturday at her Melbourne debut, in the Guineas Prelude.

Stablemate Reginae, who accompanied Smart Melody south last week, will make her Melbourne debut at Caulfield on Saturday.

Mark Zahra has been booked to ride Reginae in the Listed Jim Moloney Stakes (1400m).

The All Too Hard filly has impressed winning both her recent starts at Kembla Grange and Randwick.