Peter Snowden hasn't started promising filly Divorces for a month in a move designed to give the youngster her best chance of victory in Saturday's Group One Sires' Produce Stakes.Divorces will be one of three runners for Darley with Blackball and Skilled also set to tackle the 1400m feature at Randwick."I have specifically given Divorces a month between her last run because she was getting too dour and getting too far out of her ground," Snowden said."Hopefully being a bit fresher she will be a

Peter Snowden hasn't started promising filly Divorces for a month in a move designed to give the youngster her best chance of victory in Saturday's Group One Sires' Produce Stakes.

Divorces will be one of three runners for Darley with Blackball and Skilled also set to tackle the 1400m feature at Randwick.

"I have specifically given Divorces a month between her last run because she was getting too dour and getting too far out of her ground," Snowden said.

"Hopefully being a bit fresher she will be able to take up a bit more of a spot and be midfield at least (during the run).

"At the end of her races she's always been strong so the 1400 metres shouldn't be an issue at all for her."

Divorces finished fourth to Chance Bye first-up in the Group Two Silver Slipper (1100m) before finishing fourth again at her next start, this time to Golden Slipper winner Crystal Lily in the Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m) at Randwick on March 13.

"Both of her runs suggested she wants further and that's what we've done, we've waited for these longer races to come up," Snowden said.

There were 12 acceptors for the Sires' Produce Stakes when the final field was declared on Wednesday with Divorces coming up with barrier 11.

Stablemates Blackball and Skilled drew barriers seven and five respectively.

Blackball finished second in the Pago Pago Stakes (1200m) on March 27 but Darley decided against paying the $150,000 late entry fee to run him in the Golden Slipper last week.

"I think it suited him better waiting for the 1400 metres," Snowden said.

Blackball had to go back from the outside barrier in the Pago Pago but ran home strongly to split Brightexpectations and Hinchinbrook in a performance that indicated to Snowden the colt was capable of winning a race like the Sires.

"There was no fluke in that run," he said.

Skilled is backing up from Golden Slipper day last week when he won the Listed Baillieu Handicap (1400m).

"He had a soft win in the end because he drew a good gate, did no work, and he wasn't punished at all to win," Snowden said.

Only More Strawberries and Hinchinbrook will back up from last week's $3.5 million Golden Slipper.

The pair finished alongside each other in the Slipper, with More Strawberries third and Hinchinbrook fourth, and dominate the market for the Sires.