Racing: The Opera House leading up to Qld Oaks crescendo

SYDNEY - Distinctive white filly The Opera House will have a barrier trial at Gosford today before trainer Kris Lees decides where the 3-year-old races next.

The Opera House has had two starts for a fifth in a 1400m 3-year-old maiden at Newcastle on debut before a luckless second at Gosford in a 1600m maiden on January 13.

"She'll have a quiet trial on Monday and then we'll decide where we kick off her campaign," Lees said on Saturday.

The trainer won the Queensland Oaks with Vitesse Dane in 2005 and that is the race he would like to target with The Opera House. "If she is good enough our plan is to aim her at the Queensland Oaks."

One of The Opera House's owners is flamboyant businessman John Singleton, who looks like playing a major role in Oaks races around the country in coming months.

He has Once Were Wild on an AJC Australian Oaks path, while Tallow is likely to run in the Australasian Oaks in Adelaide on Saturday.

Pure white thoroughbreds are extremely rare and The Opera House is is a three-quarter sister to former champion Might And Power.

- AAP