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Backmarker She’s Ideel will face her most significant test when she tackles the weight-for-age Tancred Stakes.

Family bragging rights will be up for grabs on Saturday when trainer Bjorn Baker and his father and fellow horseman Murray saddle up rival runners in two feature races at Rosehill. 

Luckless mare She's Ideel will face her first weight-for-age test in the G1 Tancred Stakes (2400m) where she comes up against the Murray Baker And Andrew Forsman -trained The Chosen One. 

Markets have little between the pair with the more seasoned The Chosen One a $15 chance and She's Ideel at $18 following her third to Polly Grey last weekend when she didn't get clear running until the race was all but over. 

"She's got to step up with the big boys and obviously carry more weight than she has been carrying but she switches off and if she can get out and get clean air, I'm sure she will hit the line hard," Bjorn Baker said. 

Finding clear galloping room has frequently been an issue for She's Ideel, who has hit the line stylishly in all three runs this campaign without winning. 

Baker says it is part and parcel of having a backmarker. 

"She doesn't help herself because she doesn't have a lot of tactical speed," he said. 

"No doubt if she has any luck she probably wins last Saturday but that's racing. 

"She is going to get back and probably need luck again but she's well and she deserves a crack at it." 

The Bakers will also clash in the Tulloch Stakes where Murray will start New Zealand Derby placegetter The Frontman ($4.80) and Bjorn improving three-year-old Fields Of Honour ($19).