The BMW hope Abbey Marie is set to resume racing Saturday week and could race first-up in Group 1 class for the 2017 Ladbrokes CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse.

The four-year-old daughter of Redoute’s Choice is only lightly-raced, but is undefeated having won all three career starts for her Cranbourne-based trainer Michael Kent.

Her biggest success was back in May last year when she won the Group 1 Schweppes Australasian Oaks (2000m) in South Australia.

It has been nine months since her Group 1 win and Kent has Abbey Marie engaged for a Cranbourne trial next Monday morning.

Kent has big plans with his Group 1 winning mare including a possible Sydney run on March 25 at Rosehill Gardens in the weight-for-age $1.5 million Group 1 The BMW (2400m).

The untapped galloper though will likely kick things off in Victoria on February 11 in a predicted capacity field in the $500,000 Group 1 Ladbrokes C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m).

“She’s due to run there [at Caulfield] first-up [in the CF Orr Stakes] or in the mares race on the same day,” Kent told Racing Victoria.

“It’s just hard to find a race for her. The mares race on that day [the Group 3 Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes] is an option but it’s a six-furlong race [1200m] and it’s too short really.

“But the Orr is looking really hot so we’ll just be prudent.

“We’ll see how she trials on Monday and pick the right race to start her off but she’s at that sort of rating now that you can’t find a mares race anywhere.”

Abbey Marie is also nominated for $1.5 million Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington on ‘Super Saturday’ – March 11.

In Sydney on the same day as the CF Orr Stakes, the country’s best racehorse Winx steals the show kicking off her campaign in the Group 2 Apollo Stakes (1400m).

Many horses will be looking to avoid a clash with Chris Waller’s dual Cox Plate champion when she looks to extend her winning streak to 14 straight in the Apollo at a surely unbackable price.

In Melbourne the 2017 CF Orr Stakes field limit is down from 18 to 16 after the Mourinho hard-luck story from last autumn.

“We decided that a safety limit is a safety limit and that should not be waived for any certain race,” Racing Victoria’s chief steward Terry Bailey said this week.

“Also, we took the view that there was not enough room behind the gates at the 1400-metre start so the field size was reduced to 16.”

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