The broodmare barn is still more than a year away for talented Kiwi mare Barinka who could earn a Group One Winter Stakes start with a good performance in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich.Levin trainer Karen Zimmerman has booked lightweight Gold Coast rider Jason Taylor to partner Barinka in Saturday's 1350-metre feature.Zimmerman is on her first trip to Queensland for the winter carnival but is no newcomer to bringing horses across the Tasman to campaign.She has been training for 25 years

The broodmare barn is still more than a year away for talented Kiwi mare Barinka who could earn a Group One Winter Stakes start with a good performance in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes at Ipswich.

Levin trainer Karen Zimmerman has booked lightweight Gold Coast rider Jason Taylor to partner Barinka in Saturday's 1350-metre feature.

Zimmerman is on her first trip to Queensland for the winter carnival but is no newcomer to bringing horses across the Tasman to campaign.

She has been training for 25 years and has won three Group One races during her career.

"Cinder Bella has been my best horse so far. She won the Captain Cook Stakes (2000) and Kelt Capital (2001)," Zimmerman said.

"I brought her to Australia twice. She ran in the George Ryder and Doncaster in Sydney but she didn't do well.

"She didn't like being cramped up in the boxes over here and it told in both races when she was well beaten.

"I brought her back in the spring to Melbourne and she ran fourth in the Mackinnon Stakes and third in the Sandown Classic."

Zimmerman, who also won the 2004 Captain Cook Stakes with Rodin, has a high opinion of Barinka who she rates as potentially the equal of Cinder Bella.

"Barinka is a five-year-old now but she'll be racing on for another year," she said.

"Her best win so far was the Listed Anniversary Handicap at Trentham last January.

"She's very handy and potentially she's as good as any horse I've trained."

Barinka was spelled after her Anniversary Handicap victory and returned to put the writing on the wall for a trip to Queensland with an unlucky second to Irish Colleen in last month's Listed Rotorua Stakes (1400m).

Barinka produced a sound performance at her first Brisbane start, finishing strongly for fifth to Set For Fame in the Group Two Dane Ripper Stakes (1400m) at Eagle Farm on June 5.

Zimmerman was thrilled with the daughter of Shinko King's effort after being trapped wide.

"It was an enormous run. She got too far back from the draw and ran home strongly," she said.

"I'll back her up next week at Eagle Farm but I'm not sure yet whether she'll run in the Winter Stakes or a 1600-metre race the same day."

Zimmerman is happy with her decision to engage Taylor for Barinka, who has won five of her 25 starts and been placed another 10 times.

"I only started looking around for a rider last night after she received 53 kilos," Zimmerman said.

"Jason is a good lightweight rider and he knows Ipswich well.

"The Eye Liner is a good race and I think we've got a good lightweight chance but some rain would help."