Leading trainer Peter Moody has left his options open with smart mare Avenue who will resume in either Adelaide, Melbourne or Sydney on Saturday.The triple Group Three winner has been nominated for two races at Caulfield, the Group Three Cockram Stakes (1200m), and the Listed August Sprint (1200m).She has also been entered for the Group Three Spring Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville and the Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill.Moody said wherever Avenue showed up on Saturday, she had to per

Leading trainer Peter Moody has left his options open with smart mare Avenue who will resume in either Adelaide, Melbourne or Sydney on Saturday.

The triple Group Three winner has been nominated for two races at Caulfield, the Group Three Cockram Stakes (1200m), and the Listed August Sprint (1200m).

She has also been entered for the Group Three Spring Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville and the Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) at Rosehill.

Moody said wherever Avenue showed up on Saturday, she had to perform or she could be off to stud sooner rather than later.

"She has got to show to me that she's come back otherwise it's off to the breeding barn," he said.

Moody said Avenue was in the same boat as stablemate Headway, who was runner-up in the 2009 Golden Slipper and won the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington last spring.

Headway ran fifth to Elusive Touch when resuming in last Saturday's Aurie's Star Hcp (1200m) at Flemington.

"They are very valuable mares and I don't want to flog them for 12 months if they are not going to be winning at Group One or Two level," Moody said.

"I know they can win at Listed and Group Three level, but there's no sense in flogging them around in $100,000 races when they can go off to stud and have a half-a-million-dollar foal."

After a hat-trick of 1200-metre wins in the Champagne Stakes at Moonee Valley, the Thoroughbred Club Stakes at Caulfield and the Red Anchor Stakes at Moonee Valley, Avenue failed to find her best form in the autumn with four unplaced runs.

Meanwhile trainer Mick Price has Das Machen in the Cockram but has announced the retirement of Group One The Goodwood winner Velocitea.

Velocitea was sent out favourite when she resumed and ran third to Shoot Out in last Saturday week's Group Two Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.

Price said the five-year-old, who raced five times for him for three wins and two placings all in stakes races, might be mated with champion stallion Redoute's Choice this spring.

Velocitea won two races in New Zealand as a two-year-old before being sent to Flemington trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith who won two races with her including the 2009 Group Three How Now Stakes at Caulfield.

She was transferred to Price when Mayfield-Smith retired from training.

Like Avenue, Das Machen is nominated for the Spring Stakes, but is also entered for the Light Fingers Handicap (1400m) at Caulfield.

She has been placed at her past five starts, winning over 1200 metres at Caulfield and Moonee Valley but faces a big class rise if she take her place in the Cockram.

Heading the entries are Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights, Tesio Stakes winner Lady Lynette, Moonee Valley Fillies Classic winner My Emotion and Matron Stakes winner Response.

Puttanesca, who won the Group Two Royal Stakes (2000m) at Ellerslie, makes her debut for the Mark Kavanagh stable.