Craven Plate winner Miss Marielle won't be chasing carnival riches in Melbourne this spring but trainer Joe Pride is still hoping to plunder some of the major races in the southern capital with Vision And Power.Miss Marielle made it back-to-back Group victories with her Craven Plate triumph at Randwick on Saturday but Pride said he favoured spelling the rejuvenated mare with a view to the autumn."It opens up a few more doors now she has won at 2000 metres and handles the wet as well," Pride said

Craven Plate winner Miss Marielle won't be chasing carnival riches in Melbourne this spring but trainer Joe Pride is still hoping to plunder some of the major races in the southern capital with Vision And Power.

Miss Marielle made it back-to-back Group victories with her Craven Plate triumph at Randwick on Saturday but Pride said he favoured spelling the rejuvenated mare with a view to the autumn.

"It opens up a few more doors now she has won at 2000 metres and handles the wet as well," Pride said.

"I'm happy to send her out now rather than send her to the races one time too many."

Miss Marielle ploughed through the wet track to defeat Group One winner Nom Du Jeu at Randwick and while Pride was rapt, he was ruing the bad timing for Vision And Power whose best form is on rain-affected ground.

The winner of the George Ryder Stakes and Doncaster Mile at Group One level in the autumn was home in his box on Saturday after hitting good tracks at all four starts this campaign, including his fourth to Road To Rock in the George Main Stakes seven days earlier.

Pride is hoping for some wet weather in Melbourne where the seven-year-old's main aim is the Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on October 24.

He will take another step towards that goal at Caulfield on Saturday when he lines up in the Yalumba Stakes (2000m) on the Guineas day program.

"He will run next Saturday in the Yalumba," Pride said.

"I've been very happy with the way he has been racing, he just needs a bit of this (rain)."

Hugh Bowman has been booked for the mount in the Yalumba after regular rider Jim Cassidy had an accident last week while trimming hedges at his home in Sydney.

Cassidy, who partnered Vision And Power to his two Group One victories during the autumn, underwent surgery for damage to two fingers and will be sidelined for the remainder of the spring.

Vision And Power did his early racing in Victoria where he was trained by Robert Smerdon but he has not raced there since being transferred to Pride about two years ago.

His only win in Melbourne was as a two-year-old in the winter of 2005 when he was successful over 1600 metres on a heavy track at Moonee Valley.