The injury plagued but highly talented De Lightning Ridge has bolstered trainer Joe Pride's already strong team of mares for the upcoming autumn.The four-year-old has been at Pride's Warwick Farm stables for just over a month after being transferred from Keith Dryden in Canberra.De Lightning Ridge burst onto the scene as a juvenile winning her first two starts at Canberra by a combined margin of 11 lengths, resulting in her becoming the pre-post favourite in early markets for the 2008 Golden Sli

The injury plagued but highly talented De Lightning Ridge has bolstered trainer Joe Pride's already strong team of mares for the upcoming autumn.

The four-year-old has been at Pride's Warwick Farm stables for just over a month after being transferred from Keith Dryden in Canberra.

De Lightning Ridge burst onto the scene as a juvenile winning her first two starts at Canberra by a combined margin of 11 lengths, resulting in her becoming the pre-post favourite in early markets for the 2008 Golden Slipper.

But she pulled up shin sore after her third to in the Black Opal Stakes.

She won at Canterbury in October two years ago before her eighth in the Brian Crowley Stakes after which she was sidelined with injury for almost a year.

In September last year she won impressively on the Kensington track at Randwick and has not raced since October when she was fourth to Brilliant Light at Rosehill over 1400 metres.

"I've got a nice team of mares to get through the autumn with. I've got two who are already proven at good level in Bejewelled and Patronyme," Pride said.

"Then there are two mares I'm full of hope for, Sacred Choice, she is a very nice mare, and also De Lightning Ridge.

"She's a lovely type, De Lightning Ridge and I'm hopeful that she'll measure up to those better class mares races."

Four-year-old Choisir mare Sacred Choice is building a nice record with four wins and five placings from her 14 starts.

She won two in a row in October last year at Randwick and then Rosehill.

Stakes placed Bejewelled has not raced since her third to Moti in the Listed Mona Lisa Stakes (1350m) at Wyong last September.

She was in top form last preparation winning three races at Randwick in two months.

More Than Ready mare Patronyme has won four of her 10 starts and two runs back was a long neck second to Illuminates in the Listed Angst Stakes at Randwick last October.

Pride has a reputation for his ability to turn around the fortunes of tried horses as he best demonstrated with Vision And Power.

Transferred from Robert Smerdon in Melbourne Vision And Power dominated last year's autumn carnival when he revelled in the wet winning the George Ryder Stakes and Doncaster Mile.

Despite a gallant third to Whobegotyou in the Group One Yalumba Stakes he was unable to match his autumn feats and has not raced since his 11th in the Cox Plate.