Samantha Miss won't be the only filly taking her first steps on an AJC Australian Oaks campaign at Randwick on Saturday.Trainer Grahame Begg has given inexperienced three-year-old Palacio De Cristal the green light to resume in the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m).It is the race in which Samantha Miss will begin her quest to complete the VRC Oaks-AJC Australian Oaks double.A minor setback kept Palacio De Cristal's spring to four appearances but she confirmed Begg's thinking that a feature

Samantha Miss won't be the only filly taking her first steps on an AJC Australian Oaks campaign at Randwick on Saturday.

Trainer Grahame Begg has given inexperienced three-year-old Palacio De Cristal the green light to resume in the Group Two Light Fingers Stakes (1200m).

It is the race in which Samantha Miss will begin her quest to complete the VRC Oaks-AJC Australian Oaks double.

A minor setback kept Palacio De Cristal's spring to four appearances but she confirmed Begg's thinking that a feature race was well within her scope.

"I've had the Oaks in mind for her ever since she won at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup carnival," Begg said.

"She's bred to run over the Classic distance and this campaign she'll be given her chance to prove she can stay."

Begg knows how to groom a filly for AJC Australian Oaks success.

He prepared the strikingly-marked chestnut Mahaya to beat the outstanding filly Slight Chance in the 1993 edition.

Mahaya kicked off her Oaks campaign in the Light Fingers but took an unconventional path to her long-term target with a series of weight-for-age runs against older horses.

Palacio De Cristal was given an easy time in a Randwick barrier trial on January 30 - her first public appearance since winning over 1700m at Flemington on November 6.

Glyn Schofield, riding in a purple patch of form, has the Light Fingers mount.

Schofield rode the filly in her maiden win on Randwick's Kensington track on September 30.

Begg will also saddle up Back Off in Saturday's Group Two Royal Sovereign Stakes (1200m).

Back Off was given his chance against Sydney's best three-year-olds during the spring and made a reasonable fist of his transition to stakes racing.

He was placed in the Spring Stakes (1600m) at Newcastle before being sent to the spelling paddock after finishing fifth to Sousa in the Group One Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) at Randwick in October.