Race jockey Michelle Payne paid a flying visit to Randwick on Tuesday to partner Flight Stakes contender Yosei in a gallop before heading back to Victoria to ride at the Pakenham meeting.The Stuart Webb-trained Yosei gave Payne her first major win at Randwick when she took out the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes in the autumn.Payne's affection for Yosei is obvious and she says she is looking forward to Saturday's Group One Flight Stakes (1600m).Yosei's two runs as a three-year-old have been

Race jockey Michelle Payne paid a flying visit to Randwick on Tuesday to partner Flight Stakes contender Yosei in a gallop before heading back to Victoria to ride at the Pakenham meeting.

The Stuart Webb-trained Yosei gave Payne her first major win at Randwick when she took out the Group One AJC Sires' Produce Stakes in the autumn.

Payne's affection for Yosei is obvious and she says she is looking forward to Saturday's Group One Flight Stakes (1600m).

Yosei's two runs as a three-year-old have been encouraging with the filly running fourth in the Group Three McNeil Stakes and fifth in the Thousand Guineas Prelude.

"She has travelled up to Sydney very well and she does very well in the stable so we have to get the work into her," Payne said.

"She hasn't grown much since she was a two-year-old but she is such a clean-winded athlete.

"And she tries hard all the time which is what separates her from the rest.

"She is extremely honest and I know she always gives her best."

Payne said she had no concerns about Yosei stretching out to 1600 metres.

At her only other start at the distance, Yosei ran fifth in the Champagne Stakes after the Sires, a good effort considering she struck trouble during the race.

"The mile is no concern," Payne said.

"She is settling a lot better now than she did in the autumn when she overraced a bit."

The Gai Waterhouse-trained More Strawberries is the nominal favourite and likely leader in the Flight following her all-the-way victories in the Furious Stakes and Tea Rose Stakes.

"She is sensational," Waterhouse said.

"She took a while to get fully fit but her coat is right and she gobbled up the track this morning.

During the autumn, More Strawberries ran third in the Golden Slipper before her seventh in the Sires' Produce.

Fellow Randwick trainer Grahame Begg believes Secret Admirer is a genuine Group One contender and says her last-start third in Saturday's Reginald Allen proves that.

While he would have much preferred her to have won, he issued apprentice Brenton Avdulla with instructions based on his perception of the track bias.

"He was a victim of circumstances ... nothing took him into the race," Begg said.

"Brenton rode her exactly as I told him to because of the way the track was playing."

Avdulla tried to weave a passage between runners in the straight with Secret Admirer closing late to finish less than half a length from the winner M'Lady Pedrille.

"She is not out of her place in the Flight because she is such a hard finisher," Begg said.

Avdulla retains the ride on Saturday.