Patinack Farm will take an unorthodox step to the Group One three-year-old Classics of the Queensland Derby and Queensland Oaks by running stablemates Cassini Contest and Start Again at the midweeks at Eagle Farm.Cassini Contest, a daughter of Danehill Dancer, will have her second start in Queensland in Wednesday's Ambassador Travel Maiden Plate (1500m) while Start Again will run over the same distance in the Winning Edge Presentations Handicap.Both three-year-olds will be ridden by Stathi Katsi

Patinack Farm will take an unorthodox step to the Group One three-year-old Classics of the Queensland Derby and Queensland Oaks by running stablemates Cassini Contest and Start Again at the midweeks at Eagle Farm.

Cassini Contest, a daughter of Danehill Dancer, will have her second start in Queensland in Wednesday's Ambassador Travel Maiden Plate (1500m) while Start Again will run over the same distance in the Winning Edge Presentations Handicap.

Both three-year-olds will be ridden by Stathi Katsidis who struck some timely early winter carnival form for the pair's trainer John Thompson when he booted home stablemate Honest Truth at Eagle Farm last Saturday.

Thompson's assistant trainer Toby Edmonds, who is based on the Gold Coast, said the decision to run Start Again at the midweeks was not the original plan for the son of Reset.

"We wanted to run him on Saturday (in the Gunsynd Classic) but with the strange balloting system we have here he never got a start," Edmonds said.

Start Again started off under Thompson in Sydney but was sent north before he had his first race start when he was successful over 1200 metres on a heavy track at the Gold Coast in February.

After failing in a 1350-metre class three at Doomben in March, Start Again has won at his past two starts over 1400 metres on rain-affected tracks at the Gold Coast to take his record to three wins from four starts.

"It's only his first preparation and we're taking things race by race but we'd like to think he'll get to the Queensland Derby," Edmonds said.

"He's by Reset so he should stay and he can take a sit or lead and can handle all types of tracks."

Cassini Contest has been placed in four of her seven starts but Edmonds claimed she showed a disliking for the cushion track at Caloundra last start when fourth in an 1100-metre maiden on Anzac Day.

It was the filly's first start since finishing second to Arvan in a 2040-metre race for three-year-olds at Moonee Valley on December 4.

"She's been here with me at the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks now and she looks a nice filly," Edmonds said.

"She's probably got enough prizemoney already to get into some of the better races in the winter and her form in the south is quite solid.

"She didn't handle the cushion track last start but we'll look at taking her to the Queensland Oaks if she races well."

As a two-year-old Cassini Contest was placed in the Listed Oaklands Plate (1507m) at Morphettville in Adelaide in June last year and also finished third in the Moet & Chandon (1700m) at Flemington in November.