By MIKE DILLON
Despite the pleadings of rider Greg Childs and Australian rumours to the contrary, Sunline will not start in Saturday's $A750,000 Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.
Trevor McKee said yesterday that he had heard of the rumours floating in Sydney that Sunline would remain in Australia for one more start.
"It's all news to me," he said.
"All I know is Greg Childs rang last night to ask if the mare could run, but that's only natural for a jockey - it's a payday."
McKee said the only possibility of Sunline start-ing on Saturday would be the cancellation of her flight from Sydney tomorrow.
"You have to stop somewhere. Maybe if the Queen Elizabeth was two weeks rather than one, I would think about it, but we couldn't ask her to back up three weeks in a row."
Not that Sunline took much out of herself win-ning Saturday's $A400,000 All Aged Stakes by four and threequarter lengths.
"Greg said it was a stroll in the park for her," said McKee.
"He said he didn't put her under any real pres-sure, but said he hadn't looked behind either, he just kept kicking."
Sunline will have only a four-week spell.
"She is not the sort that requires any longer," said McKee.
"Some horses need three months in the paddock, but she's not one of them. She can have a long, slow build-up to her spring campaign."
The news was not so good for stablemate Nahayan, who pulled up sore after finishing fifth in Tie The Knot's St Leger.
"It's in a shoulder, so she can come home with Sunline."
At Ellerslie, the Mckee stable landed a Krystal Klear, Zaitan, Home Town Hero treble.
Trevor McKee has a lot of time for Krystal Klear, a $2500 yearling purchase.
"I trained her mother, who was by Grosvenor, and while she did nothing, I really liked the look of this filly as a yearling."
Krystal Klear had been costing herself dearly by getting too far off the speed in her races and McKee instructed rider Matthew Williamson to have her handy on the home bend - regardless.
That meant being three wide outside the leaders, but it proved the winning tactic.
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