Gold Coast filly Femina Fashion has made a quick recovery from her Doomben Roses battering to be one of two late entries for the Group One Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm on Saturday week.The other late entry, maiden performer Ali's Gold Class, also hails from the Gold Coast where she is trained by Debbie Newham and has been placed at her only two starts on her home track.Femina Fashion's connections spent a harrowing 48 hours following her second to Marheta in the Group Three Doomben Roses last S

Gold Coast filly Femina Fashion has made a quick recovery from her Doomben Roses battering to be one of two late entries for the Group One Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm on Saturday week.

The other late entry, maiden performer Ali's Gold Class, also hails from the Gold Coast where she is trained by Debbie Newham and has been placed at her only two starts on her home track.

Femina Fashion's connections spent a harrowing 48 hours following her second to Marheta in the Group Three Doomben Roses last Saturday before deciding to pay the $11,000 late entry fee for the 2400-metre feature.

Larry Cassidy will be the new rider for Femina Fashion in the Oaks replacing suspended jockey Shane Scriven.

A total of 31 fillies including Marheta and the Bart Cummings-trained Dariana remained in the Queensland Oaks when first acceptances closed on Wednesday.

Trainer Trevor Whittington originally decided to bypass the Oaks with Femina Fashion after she suffered an unusual setback last month.

The daughter of Shamardal suffered severe swelling around the head and neck which was thought to come from a wasp bite following her run at Doomben on April 10.

Whittington still wasn't persuaded to rethink the Oaks mission and pay the late fee until Femina Fashion tried valiantly to lead all the way when runner-up in the Doomben Roses.

However, Whittington later discovered the filly was struck behind in the roughhouse Roses and informed her connections of her injuries.

"She took all the hair off her near-hind leg and had a puncture wound around the joint in the offside-hind leg," Whittington said.

"I thought she was no hope for the Oaks on Sunday so I rang her owners and told them the decision not to run had been made for us.

"I poulticed the leg and got the vet to her on Sunday and she was walking fine the next day after some treatment with antibiotics.

"She was walking good on Monday so I rang the owners again that day and backtracked on the Oaks.

"Her work on Tuesday was fine so we decided to pay the late fee. You only get one chance at the Oaks."