Kimillsy was treated with antibiotics for what Waugh described as "a low-grade virus".

"We'll just monitor her for the next few days and hope the temperature doesn't spike again," she said.

Waugh is eyeing either the Premiers Cup or the Wyong Cup with Delago Star.

"His two runs back have been very good," Waugh said. "He looked good winning at Newcastle last start and he'll run again in two weeks. We'll then work out which way we'll go."

Dryden confident

Premier Canberra trainer Keith Dryden is tipping one-time Golden Slipper favourite and last-start flop De Lightning Ridge to bounce back in Saturday's Analie Handicap at Rosehill.

"I can't find anything wrong with her other than she changed stride several times on the wet track at Canterbury last start," Dryden said on Thursday. "I've had her blood done and there is nothing wrong there.

"I was trying to take all the soft options to get to the Golden Rose. It hasn't worked out so far, but I've got to keep trying."

Dryden, who won his first Canberra premiership last season, said local jockey Kevin Sweeney would replace three kilogram claiming apprentice Kody Nestor, who was on board at Canterbury.

"He [Sweeney] is on her back all the time," Dryden said. "He galloped her on Tuesday morning and said to me, 'You know, I reckon that is the best the filly has worked since you've had her.' He was impressed enough and he has ridden a few horses in his time."

The only concern Dryden has is a wet track. "Stewards gave me the message in no uncertain terms at Canterbury they wouldn't like to see her back here on a wet track," Dryden said.

Synthetic meetings

Could it be a sign of the times. Three thoroughbred meetings scheduled for Friday will be conducted on synthetic surfaces. The Canberra Acton track is in action, as well as the Thorough track at Geelong, and north of the border gallopers will go around on the Cushion track at the Sunshine Coast.

New fences safer

Plastic running rails designed to absorb the impact of rider and horse with a kick-out release system allowing uprights to free from their underground bases were introduced to the Cranbourne training complex on Wednesday.

An imitative of Racing Victoria, the new rail is expected to be introduced throughout Victoria and was given the thumbs-up by jockeys.

"The kick-out factor is a world first, no one else in the world is using this sort of feature," Victorian Jockeys Association chief executive Des O'Keeffe told The Age . "It will make a very dangerous job a lot safer."

The UV-resistant PVC plastic rail was developed by Cranbourne plumber Dan Mawby, who said: "I saw Damien Oliver fall a few seasons ago where he suffered a nasty injury to his face. The idea really stemmed from that."

Both tracks at Sandown are expected to be fitted with the rail by the end of the month.