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Rookie trainer Renita Beaton is hopeful of breaking through for her maiden city winner at Doomben on Wednesday.

The 32-year-old Renita Beaton has only been training since June and has a small stable of 10 horses in work at the Gold Coast.

She trained her first winner at Lismore on November 7 when Surcote won a 1410 metre maiden.

The young trainer made it two in a row when Royal Exit was successful in a Benchmark race at Warwick four days later.

Beaton will be represented by Born A Warrior – a Ryan Wiggins mount - in the Class 1 Handicap over 1200 metres while Mark Du Plessis is booked for Kalea, an emergency in the QTIS Three-Year-Old Fillies Maiden Plate over 1200 metres.

Born A Warrior has finished second in all five starts for Beaton since the six-year-old was moved on from "Team Hawkes" in Sydney earlier this year.

The son of I Am Invincible has started 28 times for a solitary win at Kembla Grange in October, 2020 but has figured in the placings 13 times, including 10 seconds.

Beaton is the fifth trainer for Born A Warrior since his days with "Team Hawkes".

"He's been very consistent but his racing manners of missing the start or being slow away hasn't helped him," Beaton said.

"He likes to get back into his comfort zone and a lot of the time when he's been beaten there's never been any speed on for him.

"Hopefully, there'll be some speed on for him in this."