The quest to rid Glowlamp of her tag as Australia's best maiden has led trainer Clarry Conners to start the dual Group One placegetter in a midweek race at Randwick.Incredibly, Glowlamp is yet to win in 18 starts despite finishing in the minor placings in eight stakes races, two of those at Group One level behind Samantha Miss and Sebring in the Champagne Stakes as a two-year-old and in Gallica's Thousand Guineas last spring.The winner of more than $250,000 in prizemoney, Glowlamp will resume in

The quest to rid Glowlamp of her tag as Australia's best maiden has led trainer Clarry Conners to start the dual Group One placegetter in a midweek race at Randwick.

Incredibly, Glowlamp is yet to win in 18 starts despite finishing in the minor placings in eight stakes races, two of those at Group One level behind Samantha Miss and Sebring in the Champagne Stakes as a two-year-old and in Gallica's Thousand Guineas last spring.

The winner of more than $250,000 in prizemoney, Glowlamp will resume in the Intergaze Maiden Plate (1100m) at Tuesday's meeting on the Kensington track.

Conners deliberately picked a low key starting point in the hope his class mare can finally reach the winning post first and shed her label as the country's best maiden once and for all.

"I can't wait to get that tag off her back," Conners said.

"She's come up nicely, I just want to win that race with her."

Glowlamp could arguably be known as Australia's unluckiest racehorse.

She bumped into the likes of the brilliant Amelia's Dream as a juvenile then had to take on a dominant Samantha Miss in five of her seven starts as a spring three-year-old.

Conners admits it has been a frustrating journey.

"It has been. She's run some very good races and first-up last time she was beaten a (half) head, a (short) neck by Rock Me Baby and Samantha Miss and she was on the worst part of the track.

"But that's racing."

Glowlamp has a solid first-up record having been placed at all three starts fresh from a spell, including on debut in the Gimcrack Stakes when she finished less than a length from winner Portillo over Tuesday's 1100 metre journey.

Conners is yet to lock in a spring program for the mare but she is nominated for the Cox Plate and Epsom Handicap.

"She is capable of running in all sorts of races," Conners said.

"Once she wins we'll go from there."

Despite the maiden status of Tuesday's race, Glowlamp will line up against some handy rivals.

Both dual acceptor Purdey and the Bart Cummings-trained Canali are dropping back to midweek level after contesting the San Domenico Stakes won by Golden Rose hopeful Shellscrape.

Also among Glowlamp's rivals will be the John O'Shea-trained Peace Academy, who matched strides with stablemate Fist Of Fury in an exhibition gallop at Randwick on Saturday, and unraced gelding Schlager, a son of Lonhro out of former good mare Zanna.

Meanwhile, the Gai Waterhouse-trained pair of Manhattan Rain and Rock Kingdom will gallop the Melbourne way of going after the first race at Randwick.

Manhattan Rain will resume in the Danehill Stakes at Flemington on Saturday week.