Trainer Joe Pride saddles up three runners in the first stakes race of the new season in Sydney.

A mare at double-figure odds will be the sentimental favourite for the Winter Challenge.

Dylan Gibbons has continued his winter form surge with a four-winner haul.

John O’Shea is leaning towards running Cotehele in a country feature, rather than the Winter Stakes.

Three-year-old Spacewalk has upstaged the seasoned sprinters in the feature race at Randwick.