Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort has gone to the paddock with trainer Peter Moody yet to make a decision on the colt's immediate racing future.Statistics are weighing heavily on Moody who insists that the son of Exceed And Excel won't line up in the Golden Slipper unless he is confident he can run well and will not harm his long term prospects."We are very open minded," Moody said."We are going to send the horse to the paddock today for four or five days and let him guide us."After w

Blue Diamond Stakes winner Reward For Effort has gone to the paddock with trainer Peter Moody yet to make a decision on the colt's immediate racing future.

Statistics are weighing heavily on Moody who insists that the son of Exceed And Excel won't line up in the Golden Slipper unless he is confident he can run well and will not harm his long term prospects.

"We are very open minded," Moody said.

"We are going to send the horse to the paddock today for four or five days and let him guide us."

After winning the Blue Diamond from Real Saga and Maka Ena, Reward For Effort shortened from $41 to $13 with TAB Sportsbet for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill on April 4.

Moody said Reward For Effort had pulled up well from Victoria's richest two-year-old race last Saturday but he is concerned about the poor success rate of Blue Diamond winners in the Golden Slipper.

Alinghi is the only Blue Diamond winner to place in the Golden Slipper Stakes in the last 12 years when she finished third to Dance Hero in 2004.

"It is not overly encouraging," Moody told Melbourne radio station Sport 927.

Moody also noted that seven of the last 10 winners (including Roedean who was later disqualified) failed to win another race.

"If there is a positive I can take out of it, it is that my horse is probably more lightly raced than most of the past winners," Moody said.

He said it could be significant that Redoute's Choice won the Blue Diamond at only his second race start and that he was the only one of the last 10 Blue Diamond winners to miss the Golden Slipper.

"The best horse to come out of it (the Blue Diamond) was Redoute's Choice and he didn't run in the Slipper because he was a late scratching and now he's the most valuable horse in the land," Moody said.

"That might be telling you something."

The Blue Diamond was only the third race start for Reward For Effort.

"All I can go by is what my horse has done in front of me and I have got to say he has pulled up very well," Moody said.

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He said that a decision on running in the Golden Slipper would be made in the horse's best interests.

"It all comes down to the horse's future," Moody said.

"We will only try and have him there on the day if he is feeling right and we think he can be competitive.

"There is no value running in that race regardless if we don't think he can run well."