Chris Waller had a decision to make on Wednesday morning but by the afternoon he was happy with the call he made as Tropicana Girl booked a shot at the Group One Queensland Oaks."She will go to the Oaks now," Waller said after the daughter of Redoute's Choice took out the theraces.com.au Handicap (1900m) at Canterbury."At 9 o'clock this morning I had to make the decision whether to pay the first acceptance and I did that."It's a big step but she has done the fitness work, it was always the plan,

Chris Waller had a decision to make on Wednesday morning but by the afternoon he was happy with the call he made as Tropicana Girl booked a shot at the Group One Queensland Oaks.

"She will go to the Oaks now," Waller said after the daughter of Redoute's Choice took out the theraces.com.au Handicap (1900m) at Canterbury.

"At 9 o'clock this morning I had to make the decision whether to pay the first acceptance and I did that.

"It's a big step but she has done the fitness work, it was always the plan, and you've got to be in it to win it."

The Queensland Oaks (2400m) is at Eagle Farm on Saturday week.

Tropicana Girl was forced to work early in the race from a wide barrier and was four deep out of the straight the first time before Tim Clark was able to slot the filly in behind the leader entering the back stretch.

The three-year-old kicked strongly at the top of the straight and held a 1-3/4-length advantage on the line over Reuben Percival with 3-3/4 lengths further back to third placegetter Com'ear.

Waller heaped praise on Clark for his winning ride.

"It was an outstanding ride and in my opinion it's the type of ride you would take to the apprentices' school to show them," Waller said.

"It shows what you need to do if you have to work early. You need to compensate for that a bit in the run somewhere and he was able to do that for five or six hundred metres down the back straight by giving her a breather, and she was able to win the race."

Tropicana Girl's victory was Waller's 90th in Sydney this season while Sydney's leading jockey Nash Rawiller was back from a recent suspension and brought up his 80th winner of the season when he guided three-year-old Crossbow to victory in the Rosehill Gardens Event Centre Handicap (1550m).

The ride on Crossbow was the subject of debate at Rosehill last Saturday when both trainer John O'Shea and Crossbow's trainer Gai Waterhouse believed they had booked Rawiller for the midweekrace.

Waterhouse and O'Shea had to front stewards at Rosehill to decide on the matter and they ruled in favour of Waterhouse, for whom Rawiller is stable rider.

Crossbow took a sit behind the leaders and then sprinted through along the inside to win by 2-1/2-lengths.

"He (Rawiller) got the job done and that's why he's so sought after," Waterhouse said.

"Nash said if Crossbow had actually ran straight when he got into the clear he would have won by five lengths. He's still very green and has a lot to learn."