Srikandi was a star of the winter carnival and will spend a little longer in Queensland in the build-up to her next campaign.
The Ciaron Maher-trained mare has been in Queensland since winning the Group One double of the Stradbroke Handicap and Tattersall’s Tiara last month and the four-year-old will return to work in the coming days.
“I might keep her up there for a month,” Maher said.
“She’s had a few weeks off and really thrived.”
Maher said he had yet to determine race targets for Srikandi in the spring.
“We’ll just see how she comes up,” he said.
Srikandi had a successful winter campaign in Queensland in 2014 as a three-year-old and was deliberately aimed at the carnival again this year.
The daughter of Dubawi won the Group Two Victory Stakes first-up and then bounced back after unplaced runs in the BTC Cup and Doomben 10,000 to win the $2 million Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben and the Tattersall’s Tiara at the Gold Coast.
“She did a super job last time,” Maher said.
“We targeted those races and to get three out of the five of them was great.”
Srikandi was responsible for two of Maher’s three Group One wins this season with Set Square winning the other, the VRC Oaks.
Set Square is back in Maher’s Caulfield stable preparing for the spring and the Caulfield Cup which Maher has earmarked as the fourth start of her campaign.
“She had a good spell and did her pre-training down on the beach at Warrnambool,” Maher said.
“I think we’re going to kick her off in the P B Lawrence.”
The Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes (1400m) is at Caulfield on August 15.
