Graeme Rogerson's hopes of a start at The Championships for Ferrando are fading.
"I'm watching the weather and he's still in the Arrowfield Sprint on April 8, but I won't be running him on heavy ground in Sydney," he said.
"He's more than likely to run on the 15th in a three-year-old race at Tauranga over 1200 metres and then he could go to Adelaide."
The South Australian race Rogerson has an eye on is the A$1 million group one Goodwood at Morphettville on May 20.
Ferrando has won four of his seven starts, including the Mongolian Khan Trophy at Ellerslie before he finished fourth in his first start over 1400 metres in the Wellington Guineas.