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A host of top South Australian gallopers stepped up their 2023 campaigns at the Strathalbyn trials on Monday.

Richard and Chantelle Jolly's See You In Heaven is set to resume in what looms a white hot Listed Durbridge Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday week and clash with Will Clarken and Nikki O'Shea's pair of Beau Rossa and Ironclad among a host of quality horses.

See You In Heaven had her first public hit-out since her dominant Sandown Guineas win at the back end of the spring working into second behind Beau Rossa in the first Open Trial.

Richard Jolly said See You In Heaven was set to resume at Morphettville in Saturday weeks' Listed Durbridge Stakes before chasing Group 1 glory in Victoria.

"She looked pretty good,'' Jolly said.

"That's all we wanted to see her do and that was working home nicely. She seems to have come back in great order,'' he said.

See You In Heaven is set to resume in Adelaide with the Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington on March 4 her main mission.

"She'll resume in the Durbridge and then head to the Vanity Stakes over 1400m at Flemington on February 18,'' Jolly said.

"It shapes up well for her from the Vanity into the Australian Guineas, what happens after that will depend on what she does.

"We obviously have the option to keep going and there are so many nice races for her here through the carnival,'' he said.

Clarken's Ironclad and stablemate He's A Balter finished just behind the placegetters in their Open Trial running through the line under a good hold and could also be headed to the Durbridge Stakes on February 28.

It was Ironclad's first public hit-out following a successful WA summer campaign where he finished second in the Group 1 Northerly Stakes being Amelia's Jewel before running third in the Group 2 Ted Van Heemst Stakes over 2100m at Ascot on December 17.