Lee Freedman is quietly confident Blue Diamond Stakes placegetter Maka Ena will measure up in the better fillies races up to 1600 metres this spring, but is only hopeful about her toppling the unbeaten Black Caviar in Saturday's Arrow Training Services Plate at Moonee Valley.The daughter of Exceed And Excel, a 1000m winner at the Valley on debut in December, has always looked the type to go on as a three-year-old and Freedman has her aimed towards the Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on Oct

Lee Freedman is quietly confident Blue Diamond Stakes placegetter Maka Ena will measure up in the better fillies races up to 1600 metres this spring, but is only hopeful about her toppling the unbeaten Black Caviar in Saturday's Arrow Training Services Plate at Moonee Valley.

The daughter of Exceed And Excel, a 1000m winner at the Valley on debut in December, has always looked the type to go on as a three-year-old and Freedman has her aimed towards the Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield on October 14 which is also earmarked for the Peter Moody-trained Black Caviar.

"She's a big, rangy sort of a filly who wanted to get back in her races and run on late in the autumn so we're hopeful that she'll run 1600 metres," Freedman said.

"We had a winner by Exceed And Excel (Mount Everest) on Thursday (at Sale) over 1700 metres so the right ones can run a bit further.

"She's pretty forward but we would tend to want to ride her a bit quietly to be getting home."

Maka Ena stormed home late when coming from 11th on the turn to finish third to Reward For Effort and Real Saga in the Group One Blue Diamond (1200m) at Caulfield in February.

Dwayne Dunn, who won on Maka Ena at the Valley and rode her in the Blue Diamond, is back on the filly on Saturday replacing Sheikh Mohammed's number one Australian jockey Kerrin McEvoy who has ridden her twice for fourths on each occasion.

Freedman was taken with rival Black Caviar's wins, by five lengths over 1000m at Flemington on April 18 and by six lengths in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on May 2.

"Black Caviar looked extremely impressive against lesser horses and obviously she has a lot of ability and is clearly the one to beat I would have thought," he said.

Leon Corstens is wasting no time backing up Noesis after she put herself out of business early at Caulfield last Saturday.

The Exceed And Excel filly bucked shortly after the start in the Quezette Stakes (1100m) when resuming last week and jockey Danny Nikolic reported to stewards that the saddle had shifted back which may have caused her to react in that manner.

Stewards ordered that Noesis must trial satisfactorily before being allowed to race again.

"We trialled her at Caulfield on Tuesday morning in front of the stewards," Corstens said.

"Stephen Baster rode her and she went around quite nicely."

Baster will ride the filly in Saturday's 1200m Listed Race in which she drew barrier one in the small field of six.

Noesis, who won the Listed Inglis Plate (1000m) by three lengths from Dancescape at her race debut at Flemington in October, was found to have fractured a tibia in that race and had to be sidelined for the autumn.