Trainer Robert Smerdon is looking at the bigger picture with Mosheen as the filly confronts champion three-year-old Sepoy for the first time since the Golden Slipper Stakes in the autumn.Sepoy won the Slipper by two lengths from Mosheen in April and Smerdon isn't expecting the result will be any different in Saturday's Danehill Stakes (1200m) showdown at Flemington."We're running into Sepoy this week but that is the path we have plotted," Smerdon said."We're not going to beat him but you've got

Trainer Robert Smerdon is looking at the bigger picture with Mosheen as the filly confronts champion three-year-old Sepoy for the first time since the Golden Slipper Stakes in the autumn.

Sepoy won the Slipper by two lengths from Mosheen in April and Smerdon isn't expecting the result will be any different in Saturday's Danehill Stakes (1200m) showdown at Flemington.

"We're running into Sepoy this week but that is the path we have plotted," Smerdon said.

"We're not going to beat him but you've got to run in the races that suit your horse so you can do what you want to do in the big picture."

Mosheen is at $8 with TAB Sportsbet while Sepoy, a last-start easy winner of the Listed Vain Stakes, dominates the market at $1.18.

Hallowell Belle, who was second to Sepoy in the Blue Diamond Stakes, is at $7.

Smerdon said the Group One Thousand Guineas (1600m) was Mosheen's spring goal with the possibility of her training on to the VRC Oaks (2500m) in November.

Formerly trained by Leon Corstens, Mosheen has only raced three times and last start, ridden by Dan Nikolic when first-up for Smerdon, ran a cracking race to finish a length third to Satin Shoes and Metonymy in the Listed Quezette Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on August 13.

"I couldn't be happier with her really," Smerdon said.

"Danny said that getting to the corner she felt like the winner but she just peaked at the 150 metres.

"She kept making ground but he felt she'd had enough."

Smerdon said that the run would have done Mosheen a lot of good as she wasn't wound up for the Caulfield event.

"We hadn't trialled her or anything and she went in there new," he said.

He said the three-week break to the Danehill had been beneficial and by design so that she could have another two weeks to the Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) at Caulfield on September 17.

The Edward Manifold Stakes (1600m) on October 2 is another link in the chain to the Thousand Guineasat Caulfield on October 12.

"She's got staying blood in her pedigree and she is a very clean-winded horse," Smerdon said.

He said a pleasing aspect of her Quezette run was how well she relaxed with the blinkers taken off.

"She was good and switched off," Smerdon said.

Nikolic said he was hopeful that Mosheen would be his next big winner, with his last Group One success the 2010 Oakleigh Plate on Starspangledbanner.

"She's my main one this spring," Nikolic said.

"I need a big-race winner because I haven't had one for a while.

"She is going well, hasn't missed a beat and would have got a bit of benefit from the run the other day."